About the Team and the League

The USIP 'Screaming Hawks' softball team plays in the DC Think Tank Softball League (DCTTSL).  Its membership is drawn primarily from staff at the United States Institute of Peace, but also includes friends and family members of colleagues as well as former colleagues.

The DCTTSL is a summer-time co-ed softball league in the Washington, DC area.  The teams are mostly from area think tanks but also include representation from a number of government agencies and private firms.  The 2010 roster of teams is below:
  1. Administrative Office of the US Courts - Streetwalkers
  2. American Enterprise Institute (AEI) The Brooks Brothers
  3. Brookings Institution RBIs
  4. Catholic Charities
  5. Cato Institute Running Dogs
  6. Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
  7. Center for American Progress (CAP) Leftfielders
  8. Center for Strategic and International Studies Strategerizers
  9. Charles G. Koch Foundation Koch Classical Liberals
  10. Council on Foreign Relations New World Order
  11. Department of Commerce Dumpers
  12. Department of State EUR
  13. Department of State HO Foggy Bottom Dwellers
  14. Department of State WHA WHAqueros 
  15. Drug Enforcement Administration DEAlers
  16. Eagle Publishing Axis of Eagle
  17. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) FERCules
  18. German Marshall Fund (GMFUS) Sauerkrauts
  19. Hands-on-DC Renovators
  20. Heritage Foundation (#1) Supply Sliders
  21. Heritage Foundation (#2) Capitalist Tools
  22. Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
  23. Institute for Justice (IJ)
  24. Institute of World Politics (IWP)
  25. International Republican Institute (IRI)
  26. Lawyers Swingers
  27. Mango Newsletter The Establishment
  28. Mathematica Ballpark Estimates
  29. National Democratic Institute (NDI) Little D's
  30. NDN Globalization Trotters
  31. New America Foundation (NAF) Radical Centerfielders
  32. NTU/ATR/TF Dynamic Scorers
  33. One Economy Corp. Killer Bees
  34. Roosevelt Institution Rough Riders
  35. Solidarity Center Molly Maguires
  36. Urban Institute Outliers
  37. U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) Screaming Hawks
  38. U.S. Forest Service
  39. Washington Scholars Fellowship Program
  40. Wilderness Society Sand County Nationals
  41. Woodrow Wilson Center