Girls’ Flag Football becomes sanctioned sport in California

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The California Interscholastic Federation is adding girls’ flag football as a sanctioned sport for the 2023-24 sports season. On Friday, the state’s governing body approved the sanctioning by a vote of 146-0.

Girls’ flag football is one of the fastest growing sports in America thanks to NFL teams throwing their support into it.

In California, the Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers have all had a big hand in growing the sport.

On Wednesday, New York announced that it was adding girls’ flag as an official varsity sport in 2024.

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.