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Girls flag football is booming at the high school level. It’s a little more complicated for the boys

Girls’ high school flag football participation increased by 25,000 players and expanded to nearly 1,000 more schools amid NFL efforts to promote safer football alternatives.

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By Hannah Keyser, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — When Austin Sheepo first told his girlfriend that he plays on his high school flag football team, she was a little confused. “Isn’t that a girls’ sport?” she asked. They attend different high schools, and at her school, “they have a real football team and a girls’ flag football team,” he said. Real Football: The kind where kids tackle each other; the kind with violence, an unrivaled dominance in the cu…

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Girls flag football is booming at the high school level. It’s a little more complicated for the boys

When Austin Sheepo first told his girlfriend that he plays on his high school flag football team, she was a little confused.

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CNN broke the news in Atlanta, United States on Saturday, February 7, 2026.
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