flag football
December 18, 2023
Steve Young coaches during California’s flag football craze
Following the California Interscholastic Federation’s (CIF) announcement that it would sanction girls flag football for the 2023- 24 school year, they received some large star power to help coach. Hall of Fame, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Ste...
September 21, 2022
CIF On Verge of Adding Girls Flag Football
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is on the verge of adding girls flag football to its list of in-state athletic offerings. A recent column from the LA Time's Eric Sondheimer outlined how the CIF's 10 section commissioners are growin...
April 8, 2021
AHSAA Approves Girls Flag Football for Fall 2021
Girls flag football will be taking the field in Alabama for the Fall 2021 season. The Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) announced earlier this week that the sport will become an officially sanctioned sport, according to a report fro...
October 13, 2020
Flag Football Surges with HS Football Postponed
With no high school football during the fall months in upstate New York, schools and athletes have found an alternative to the traditional gridiron sport — seven-on-seven flag football. According to a story from The Buffalo News, football was la...
August 31, 2020
Flag Football Starting Up in NC This Fall
In the absence of a fall high school football season, a start-up 7-on-7 flag football league has sprouted up in North Carolina. The North Carolina Triad Fusion is hosting the flag football league for high school student-athletes who want to sharpe...
October 23, 2018
Atlanta Public Schools to offer girls flag football
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) will offer flag football as a scholastic sport to seventh- and eighth-grade girls beginning in the 2019-20 school year, it was announced today. To help establish its new program, the school district will receive budgetar...
May 3, 2018
Illinois school district cuts tackle football at junior highs
Naperville School District 203 in northwestern Illinois will cut tackle football at all five of its junior high schools and replace it with flag football, the school announced. District officials said the schools are seeing a decline in participat...
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FHSAA considers adding esports to athletic offerings
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The FHSAA is considering adding esports to its athletic offerings afte...