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NCAA recommends adding women's flag football as 'emerging' varsity sport

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An NCAA committee on Wednesday recommended that flag football enter its Emerging Sports for Women program. The recommendation is a significant step in making it an officially sanctioned varsity sport. To move forward, flag football must have a minimum of 40 schools sponsor it at the varsity level. Since 1996, six women's sports have been given championship status after going through the Emerging Sports for Women program. Full Story Flag football…

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NCAA recommends adding women's flag football as 'emerging' varsity sport

An NCAA committee on Wednesday recommended that flag football enter its Emerging Sports for Women program. The recommendation is a significant step in making it an officially sanctioned varsity sport. To move forward, flag football must have a minimum of 40 schools sponsor it at the varsity level. Since 1996, six women's sports have been given championship status after going through the Emerging Sports for Women program. Full Story Flag football…

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Empire 8 adding flag football as championship sport

ONEONTA, NY (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) -- The Empire 8 announced on Thursday that five teams -- including Hartwick College -- will make up the inaugural season of flag football for their conference. In a collaboration with the National Football League and RCX Sports -- the operator of NFL Flag, the league's youth flag football initiative -- the conference announced on Thursday, February 13 that women's flag football will become its 28th championship sport…

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NCAA committee recommends flag football as emerging sport for women amid growing popularity

The NCAA recommends adding women's flag football to its Emerging Sports program, with over 65 schools already participating at club or varsity levels

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Checking in on Girls’ Flag Football

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Mizzou chapter. A little over a year ago, I wrote an article about girls’ flag football. Since then, the sport has continued to grow in popularity. In 2023, the Arizona Cardinals took a big step in supporting young girls in sports by introducing a statewide girls’ flag football program.   Many NFL teams followed in Arizona’s footsteps by introducing their own girls’ flag football…

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Flag football gets recommendation to join NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program

The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics made a recommendation Wednesday that Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add flag football to the NCAA Emerging

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Two Astoria women join newly formed Jersey Shore Wave women's American football team - Astoria Post

Feb. 12, 2025 By sobrien Megan Stier (left) and Dannielle Ayala (right). Photo: Three B Management Feb. 12, 2025 By Shane O’Brien  Two Astoria women have joined newly-formed Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC) team the Jersey Shore Wave ahead of the new season of the highest level of professional women’s American football in the United States. Veteran quarterback Danneille Ayala, an NYU student studying sports management, and rookie wide…

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KTVB broke the news in Boise, United States on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
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