NFL Girls Flag Football

NFL Girls Flag Football


Girls flag football is a popular high school sport in the states of Florida and Alaska and in our bordering countries of Canada & Mexico

Over 4,800 girls play high school flag football in Florida and Alaska…and play it well

One third of all NFL FLAG football participants are girls

Girls flag football should be a high school sport. Thirteen girls across the country are about to make this happen

IT’S TIME FOR OUR FIRST DOWN...

The Program…

The NFL has identified the desire of girls to be more involved in the sport of flag football. Our research shows that there is a high demand for girls’ flag football to be legitimized and played as a scholastic high school sport. Girls’ flag football is already a state sanctioned sport in Florida and Alaska and both programs boast staggering participation numbers. The NFL has developed a leadership program to give girls what they want – a place to play football! It’s time for their first down.

The NFL has identified the top 10 most concentrated cities of recreational girls’ flag football participation and it selected one girl in each city who is extremely passionate about flag football, has been involved with our NFL FLAG football program, and desperately wants to play flag football as a legitimate high school sport. The NFL is empowering these girls to pursue this desire, and request that her high school pilot a girls’ flag football program. The selected participants will champion this initiative and with the assistance of local high schools, they will be the pioneers of female flag football in the U.S.A.

The NFL’s contribution…

The NFL will help subsidize this program for every high school that agrees to pilot a girls’ flag football program in Year 1 (2008/09 school year). The NFL will provide flag football equipment free of charge to each school as well as flag football coaching and officiating manuals.

Girls & High School Flag Football…

In the state of Florida, interscholastic flag football started out in 1998 with 17 schools with 860 participants and rose to 161 schools with over 4,800 participants in 2007 (458% participation increase in 10 years!)

In 2005, the Anchorage, Alaska School District polled high school girls to ask which new sport they would like to see implemented. The #1 sport requested was flag football. In its first year, the Anchorage girls’ flag football program had 343 participants from 8 high schools.

Florida and Alaska did it - its now time for the 48 states in between to carry on the momentum that these two states have generated!

It’s time for our first down.



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