Ethan Neidig was a quarterback and wide receiver at Freedom High School where he was part of teams that reached three straight District 11 championship games and won the 6A title in 2021. Neidig is a ...

Elena Easley, an 8-year-old spitfire of a second-grader in Minnesota, had a very bad day last week. She loves football. Loves to watch the Kansas City Chiefs on TV. Loves to play. She plays football ...

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 ...

An overcast sky above the Vikings’ TCO Stadium didn’t take the shine off Rogers High School. The No. 13 seed […] ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO STANDOUT BEFORE THE GAME. GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL IS GROWING EXPONENTIALLY HERE IN CALIFORNIA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ACCORDING TO USA FOOTBALL, MORE THAN 200,000 GIRLS AGES 6 TO 17 PLAYED FLAG ...

Girls flag football is now a fully recognized varsity sport in Maryland, with 132 schools expected to field a team next ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Elsa Morin gripped the football and launched a perfect spiral. Then the 17-year-old dodged in and out of cones and yanked the flag hanging from another girl’s belt for a ...

When Austin Sheepo first told his girlfriend that he plays on his high school flag football team, she was a little confused. “Isn’t that a girls’ sport?” she asked. They attend different high schools, ...

Members of the St. Thomas Aquinas girls flag football club team in Overland Park, Kan., pose for a photo during the 2025 fall season. The sport will go up for an April vote to be sanctioned in the ...

For Alicia and Taylor Jones, whether they would play football in high school was never really a question. When the identical twins stepped foot onto the football field as freshmen in 2023, they became ...