Free State's Sarai Preston, left, and Hallie Vail, right, celebrate a sack in the flag football state tournament at Olathe East High School on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, in Olathe. Two and a half months ...

For most high school girls, the prospect of playing football has always seemed out of reach. While Title IX guarantees girls the right to try out for tackle football when no girls team exists, the ...

TOPEKA — Girls flag football could be the latest sport sanctioned by KSHSAA. The fast-growing sport is making waves at the college level and it will even be in the next Summer Olympic Games. Here’s ...

Girls flag football is no longer a club experiment in Kansas. Now teams can chase a KSHSAA state title after Thursday’s vote.

What if your child had the talent, drive and heart for something they love, but not the access? What if the game they loved had no place for them -- not because they weren't good enough, but because ...

The girls danced and sang to Taylor Swift blaring through speakers, their ponytails tied up with red sparkly ribbons and their small hands waving shiny pom-poms as their giggles filled the football ...

The boy looked at me like I was crazy. There I was, standing on a Manhattan Beach field full of girls playing flag football, while he — a 12-year-old practicing alongside them with a cohort of about a ...

Seven years ago, not a single Georgia high school offered girls' flag football. Today, more than 300 schools field teams. More than 11,000 girls are playing. Coaches across the state say that kind of ...

Howard County recently announced the addition of girls flag football as a high school sport for the 2026-27 school year, the eighth county in Maryland to introduce it. Excitement is plentiful because ...