Optimist Youth Football Girls Flag 5’s player Neasjah Ellis, 12, center, hands the ball off to Kennedy Glenn, 11, in a play during practice, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at Settlers Park in ...

by Alton Worley II, KOMO News Staff TOPICS: WASHINGTON STATE — Girls' flag football is Washington’s newest sanctioned high school sport, according to the Washington Interscholastic Activities ...

Girls flag football is now a sanctioned sport by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, becoming the first new WIAA sport since girls bowling was added in 1999. The proposed ...

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) has declared a new sport in the state—girls’ flag football. Female student athletes will have a new sport to explore, as long as ...

A total of 16 amendments were proposed. For the first time since 1999, the WIAA sanctioned a new sport: Girls Flag Football. With the sport officially sanctioned as of Aug. 1, female student ...

The Washington Interscholastic and Activities Association (WIAA) representative assembly approved an amendment Monday to add girls’ flag football as a sanctioned sport. It’s the first new ...

On Monday, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announced that girls flag football will become a sanctioned high school sport. "We believe that everyone should have the access and ...

Girls flag football is now an officially recognized high school sport in Washington, following a vote by the WIAA’s representative assembly last week. “I am incredibly thankful for the ...

With the sport's inclusion in the Summer Olympics lineup for Los Angeles in 2028 serving as the most recent bump, flag football participation by girls has continued to spike across the country.

New Orleans Saints cornerback Rico Payton threw the coin toss to kickoff Day 1 of Week 4 games as Louisiana Flag Football teams competed during the 2025 Saints Girls High School Flag Football ...