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 ...

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.

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 ...

Kingston girls flag football team hosted Olympic, North Kitsap and Bainbridge for a jamboree on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. / MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images.