The southern section of the California Interscholastic Federation is expected to vote on making flag football an official girls’ high school sport. If ok’d, the state federation would take it up next month.
— which governs interscholastic sports in California — would take it up next month with a goal of making it an official sport in the nation’s most populous state for the 2023-24 school year.
While girls are allowed to play tackle football on high school teams in California, few do. Flag football allows them to experience the sport in a way “that has all the knowledge, skills, and ability and the strategy of traditional football without some of the more violent parts of it,” said Paula Hart Rodas, president-elect of the CIF Southern Section’s council who previously coached Lawndale High School’s flag team.
Chase Hartman, the Chargers' former community relations manager, said more than 70 schools filled out interest forms for the new pilot league. The NFL teams selected eight schools to start and provided uniforms and gear.Jake Jimenez, coach of the team at Redondo Union, said with COVID-19 still circulating he wasn't sure how many girls would want to play. But nearly three dozen showed up for the first tryouts last school year, and a similar number came out this year.
He said he'd like to schedule games right before his school's tackle football games to promote the team.
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