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.
The CIF has unanimously voted to sanction girls flag football as a varsity sport in CA 👏
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) February 4, 2023
We remain steadfast in our commitment to support the next generation of game-changing athletes and we’re excited to help build with the CIF San Francisco Section. https://t.co/hZECOX2nd5
Girls flag football is officially a sanctioned high school sport in California! #FootballForALL 🥳🏈
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) February 3, 2023
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girls’ flag football just officially became a CIF-sanctioned high school sport 👏👏 pic.twitter.com/G6WYHSmfJU
— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) February 3, 2023
On Wednesday, New York announced that it was adding girls’ flag as an official varsity sport in 2024.
