Flag soccer teams from Long Island get their day in Sun on the second annual media day in the Metlife Stadium

From the double champion plainview-old Bethpage JFK to programs in the first year, eleven football teams of the Long Island Flag football football teams visited on Monday at the second annual high school Girls Flag Footh Media Day, which the jets organized in the metlife stage.

“This is such a cool experience,” said Rachel Ganz, Senior recipient of POB JFK,. “I am so grateful to be here and to stand among so many other great teams from New York and New Jersey.”

Two players and the trainer from each of the 38 participating teams were interviewed by Sny Anchor and Reporter Jeané Coakley and belonged to their high school and professional experience by the members of the US national team, Deliah Autry and Isabella Geraci. The players went to media stations to take pictures and videos and designed their own uniforms with a winner who was chosen randomly to get the uniforms for this season.

The other 10 high schools from Long Island, who visited: Bethpage, Glen Cove, Long Beach, Oceanide, Roosevelt, Moriches, Halböhle Hills, Hauppauge, Sachem East and Sayville.

POB JFK, who enters his fourth season as a program, has published successive unbeaten seasons. It won 38 games in a row, the last victory over Scarsdale in the first championship game of the Division I Flag football state last June. The Hawks won the regional championship after defeating the Warwick Valley from Section IX in 2023.

“Everyone in our team knows that it is an expectation for us to win a championship again this year,” said Ganz. “The pressure comes from us. We know that it will be difficult because there are many new teams and teams will give us their best game. We have to work harder to get this championship. “

Sayville, also represented in Metlife on Thursday, joins the spring with great hopes after winning the first County and Long Island championship titles of the program last year. The Golden Blitzer give the New York State Gatorade player of the year and the quarterback Olivia Moynihan, who said the goal this season was a state championship.

“We had so much fun playing finals in the state that I didn't want to get out of this field,” said Moynihan. “We know that we can end it this year and that's what we can do here.”

Roosevelt trainer Matthew Gabaud said he had recruited many of his players from the cheerleading squad.

“During the side celebration, when we cheer the football player, I always wanted to go in the field,” said senior receiver Kaydenence Finley. “I wanted to be there. As soon as the flag football started, I said yes, I want to do that. “

Long Island's success at the state level has inspired other schools to start programs. Aurora Seany, senior citizen of Glen Cove, who said she looked up at Pob JFK's program, began a petition to bring the sport to her school. She distributed registration sheets for an attempt and generated 52 signatures before participating in the meeting of the Board of Education, in which she had to express how important sport is for the community.

“Football has always been a large part of my life and it was always tied by boys,” said Sery. “There are no other ways in Glen Cove, so I thought it was great to give girls the opportunity to play football. It is a great performance for us. “

Glen Cove-coach Brett Rubin, a deputy football and basketball coach of boys, was from the moment when Sery asked him to get in as head coach.

“I was her math teacher and we always talked about it [POB JFK] And how great you are and how great it would be for Glen Cove to have your own, ”said Rubin. “It is an exciting thing to finally have.”

Amanda Vitelli from Oceanside also started a petition to create a team that will occur this spring after the transition from an intramural sport in the first season.

“As a lonely girl of an all-boys ice hockey team, it's really nice to see how a women's program was built like this,” said Vitelli. “It's not just an organization. It's really a movement. We as women, we have a lot of potential. We are hungry for sport. “