Girls flag football is rapidly expanding in Ohio, offering new opportunities and reshaping the spring sports scene.

Not that long ago, the idea of girls playing football — actual football, not powderpuff — felt like a novelty at best and a punchline at worst. Now? It’s one of the fastest-growing sports in the ...

Flag football is one of the fastest growing high school sports in the country, and Cassandra Thompson has had a front row seat watching it expand in the Savannah area as a teacher at Jenkins, which ...

When Charli Croom gets in her defensive football stance, she doesn’t look any different from a boy in the same position. She’s not going to tackle anyone, and she has flags hanging from a belt at her ...

With 20 million players in over a hundred countries, flag football has become one of the world’s fastest growing sports. Young girls and women, like 19-year-old Ashlea Klam from Austin, Texas, have ...

A global movement. An awakening. Inevitable. The Chicago Bears’ manager of youth and high school football, Gustavo Silva, used these words when describing the rise of girls flag football, which ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings believe in the equity of football and giving everyone a chance to play the game, which is why the team is sponsoring girls flag football leagues across the state.

There will be a post season and one team will be crowned as state champion. Nearly a half million girls ages 6 to 17-years-old played flag football in 2023, according to the National Federation of ...

Girls flag football is growing, and Colorado Springs is getting ahead of the game. One year after girls flag football became an official CHSAA sport, the inaugural Girls Pro Flag Football Camp kicked ...

Girls’ flag football, buoyed by becoming an Olympic sports in 2028 and a 105% increase in participation nationwide, took a big step closer Tuesday to officially joining the high school ranks. The ...

Sartell High School is one of 51 schools across Minnesota participating in a new girls flag football league in spring 2025. For coach Scott Hentges (left), it has meant the chance to coach his ...