High school girls across the Bay Area are celebrating touchdowns and victories with smiles and high-fives during the inaugural flag football season. The fields are 80 yards long and 40 yards wide.

Kingston Girls Flag Football practice. Mackenzie Martin (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman) Kingston High School flag football Captain Hannah Tampasis. Photo taken March 31, 2023 (Tania Barricklo ...

Getty Images California approved girls’ flag football as a sanctioned sport in February, and the season is set to start in mid-August and will run through November.

With grit and grace, two Yolo County teams hit the field in Woodland, both helping forge a future for one of California's most up-and-coming high school sports: girls' flag football.

Three years ago, Chicago Public League partnered with the Chicago Bears and others to launch a girls high school flag football league. Last year, the league included more than 100 schools across ...

The girls' flag football was made an official state-sanctioned high school sport after the sport met the requirement to have had at least 100 participating teams across the state, according to a ...