High school girls' flag football could be sanctioned in California after upcoming CIF vote
Flag football could become an official girls' high school sport in California as early as the 2023-24 school year. The southern section of the California Interscholastic Federation is scheduled to vote on it Sept, 29. If approved, the state federation would take it up next month.
"One of the CIF goals is to increase participation opportunities for girls in order to close the gap between the number of girls and boys participants." reads the proposal.
California schools allow girls to play on the tackle football teams, but not many chose to do it. Flag football is a safer alternative because there is no tackling. It is also more affordable because pads are helmets are not needed. The high school teams would utilize NIRSA rules with some modifications.
The Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams partnered with Nike for a pilot season, which had eight high schools from the Los Angeles area participating during January and February of 2022. Former Charger's community relations manager Chase Hartman told the Associated Press that more than 70 schools had filled out interest forms for the pilot league, which was "quite frankly more than we were prepared for."
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