ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — Girls flag football is preparing to start the second season of a two-year Colorado High School Athletics Association (CHSAA) pilot program.
The first year was a resounding success, thanks largely to funding and coordination from the Denver Broncos, culminating in a state championship tournament at the Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse.
Now the universities are paying attention.
Why Girl’s Flag Football is Colorados
“It’s also opening up in the colleges,” said Meghan Rietveld, Eaglecrest High School’s head flag football coach. “We have already received contacts from schools that start programs and offer scholarships. All the girls see where it could take them and they’re all very excited.”
Colorado is just the latest in a growing line of states to jump on the flag football bandwagon.
“In the state of Georgia, girls’ flag football is huge,” Rietveld said. “They have national tournaments; they have all these state competitions that we want to model.”
Rietveld said she believes interest in flag football in Colorado is already strong enough to support a fully sanctioned high school sport within the CHSAA structure, suggesting that America’s young people may already have a flag of the game Change is blowing away from traditional football.
“[Georgia’s] “The league is so intense and so organized,” said Rietveld. “They broadcast their entire games. It was cool – we got to watch and learn from them too.”
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