Flag Football Growth
Girls high school flag football rapidly expands across Kansas and Missouri with growing momentum.
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Pioneer defeated Monterey Trail 19-6, while Piedmont Hills beat Salinas 21-14 in California girls flag football. The sport is also expanding rapidly: Kansas is beginning its first varsity season with 49 teams after the state sanctioned it, and Missouri has 70 schools registered as it moves toward possible full sanctioning. Nationwide, more than 100,000 girls played high school flag football last year, and 23 states plus Washington, D.C., now sanction the sport.
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Kansas sanctioned girls flag football after the Kansas State High School Activities Association voted 61-1 in April; the decision followed a Chiefs-led “Let Her Play” petition that drew about 11,000 signatures.
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The number of Kansas teams nearly doubled to 49 for the first official season, and varsity status brings official playoffs and a state championship in Wichita next month, while advocates are also pressing districts to fund coaches, uniforms and travel.
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Missouri’s provisional interscholastic status requires participation by 50 schools across at least three board districts for two consecutive years; member schools are scheduled to vote on full sanctioning in April 2027.
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National participation has grown 551% in four years, according to the article.
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