Shaw High School head girls’ flag football coach Alicia Barton is making history this week. Barton is this week’s Atlanta Falcons High School Football Coach of the Week, which makes her the first-ever girls’ flag football coach to be given the honor.
Join us in congratulating our FIRST EVER Girls Flag Football Coach as our Atlanta Falcons Coach of the Week ?
— Falcons In The Community (@FalconsCR) November 6, 2020
• Alicia Barton, Shaw High School
• Led team to runner-up finish in inaugural year (2019)
• Stresses sportsmanship towards opponents and officials#PlayFootball pic.twitter.com/O5h5Mhj12m
At the 2019 boys’ state football championships, the Falcons and the Georgia High School Association announced that girls’ flag football was becoming an officially sanctioned sport in the state thanks to a donation from the team and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. In 2019, 52 schools across the state participated in flag football with more than 800 girls taking the field.
2020 Atlanta Falcons High School Coach of the Week Winners
Week 8 – Joshua Moore, B.E.S.T. Academy
Week 7 – Chris Slade, Pace Academy
Wee 6 – Matt Hilmerich, Johns Creek
Week 5 – James Lal, Stone Mountain
Week 4 – Pete Wiggins, Callaway
Week 3 – Bill Stewart, North Gwinnett
Week 2 – Jaybo Shaw, Rabun County
Week 1 – Barrett Davis, Southeast Bulloch
As part of the Coach of the Week program, the NFL and Atlanta Falcons will recognize ten head high school varsity football coaches across the state of Georgia for their hard work and dedication to making a difference in student-athletes lives on and off the field. Each winning head coach will receive a $1,000 grant for their football program, a commemorative Atlanta Falcons item and recognition from the Atlanta Falcons.
