NCAA to start the football League of women

Roseville, Minnesota-Dieser Spring will be a player for college flag football for women.

The Vikings work with six NCAA schools in and near Minnesota to start a new league.

The participating schools include Augustana University (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), the Concordia College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Bethel University, the University of Northwestern, St. Paul and the University of Wisconsin, Stout.

“I just hope that this can be an opportunity for other girls to play football, that we can play football, and that if the opportunity is here, let us do it a big sport,” said Valerie Xiong, senior at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul (UNS).

Xiong said and grew up: “I saw all the boys playing around me, but not me.”

But Xiong played football with her father and joined some football leagues of the co-ed Church flags.

When she saw that the flags of women's football are too untr. Came, she immediately registered. She is one of more than 20 women at ENR who want to play in the league this spring.

“I know nationwide, in the world of athletics, it catches fire. There are now conferences that sponsor it,” said Matt Hill, athletics director at UN UN. Hill will also serve as one of the coaches.

Hill said the Vikings approached the school about six months ago to join.

“We had a registration sheet in the cafeteria and we had 21. We were on the back of the sheet because so many people registered … From current athletes, girls who played in the high school flag, some only wanted to play football because their brother did it,” said Hill.

The Vikings and the NFL contribute a total of 140,000 US dollars to support the league and the participating schools. For example, Hill said that they will receive $ 15,000 to get their program going.

Aaron Kahl is the basketball coach of EWRS boss, deputy sports director and one of the coaches of the Flag football program.

When the basketball season is running, Kahl said: “Many of our players were very, very excited about participating in the flag football. As soon as our basketball season ends, plan to enjoy the Flag soccer team and they talk about it continuously. I have the parents about it all the time. That was really exciting for me.”

Kahl said it had already affected recruitment.

“Girls are interested because they say: 'If they have flag football there, I play flag football. I could be more interested in coming to the northwest,” recalled Kahl.

The Vikings build the investments that they have already made in the flags of Girls flags, and the efforts to become a sanctioned high school sport in Minnesota.

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According to the press release of the Vikings, “The organization has provided more than 600,000 US dollars for nationwide and regional girls with football efforts of more than 600,000 US dollars, which reduces the financial obstacles for girls to play and support the transport and furnishing costs as well as the scholarships of trainers and civil servants.”

According to the NFL, more than 20 million people in 100 countries are currently playing flag football and participating girls between the ages of 6 and 17 have doubled in the past two years.

“We offer programs in the youth, in the middle school, in the high school and it will also be an Olympic sport. By offering this college opportunity, we really end this pipeline,” said Emily Weinberg, the youth and high school coordinator of the Vikings.

The Vikings claim that it will be the largest collection of NCAA schools to form a flag football league for women and to organize a competition season.

Unern will organize the first Jamboree on Saturday, April 5. On Saturday, April 12th, a second Jamboree will take place on Saturday, April 26th.