NFL Girls Flag Football

The NFL Girls Flag Football Leadership Program:

The NFL Girls Flag Football Leadership Program identifies the growing demand for girls’ flag football to be legitimized and played as a high school sport, and is the first program of its kind to recognize the desire of girls to be more involved in the sport of flag football. Girls’ flag football is already a state sanctioned sport in Florida and Alaska and both programs boast staggering participation numbers. Girls love to play football, and the NFL Girls Flag Football Leadership Program will strive to give girls a place to play the sport they love.

The NFL has identified the 10 most concentrated cities of recreational girls’ flag football participation and it has selected one girl in each city to pursue the establishment of girls’ flag football as a legitimate high school sport. Our ten girls are extremely passionate about flag football, have been involved with our NFL FLAG football program, and will champion this initiative with the assistance of local high schools. Empowered by the NFL, these pioneers of female flag football will request that their high schools pilot a girls’ flag football program.

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) by providing free flag football equipment to each school as well as flag football coaching and officiating manuals.

Girls & High School Flag Football:

Girls flag football is already a state sanctioned sport in Florida and Alaska and both states boast high participation numbers. In the nine years since girls flag football was sanctioned as a high school sport in Florida, participation has risen by 458%.

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Over 4,800 female athletes play girls flag football in their high schools and the NFL FLAG program has over 100,000 male and female participants nationwide

Using the success of girls flag football programs in Florida and Alaska as a guide, the ten pioneers of The NFL Girls Flag Football Program will work within their communities to share their enthusiasm about the sport and to have it recognized as a high school sport.