ORIGINAL AIR DATE: April 30th, 2024
DESCRIPTION: Northwest Newsradio sports reporter Bill Swartz looks at the unprecedented growth of girls flag football across the country, and how it could be the next official high school sport in the state of Washington.
SCRIPT:
Girls Flag Football is the next Big Thing with participation growing across America.
But as Bill Swartz tells us, some Washington State High schools are reluctant to sanction flag football as a varsity sport
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At last week’s National Football League draft Seattle Seahawks star receiver Tyler Lockett and girls flag football players from Puyallup’s Emerald Ridge High school made their goal clear
CUT: Tyler Lockett promotes girls flag football
The Seahawks and Nike have given girls flag football a 250-thousand dollar grant over five years. The sport is taking off at local high schools
CART: voice of Tacoma flag football player
CUT: Voice of WIAA exec director Mick Hoffmann
That’s Washington Interscholastic Activities Association executive director Mick Hoffman. Beginning this week, representative assembly members will consider adding girls flag football as a WIAA sanctioned sport.
Hoffman tells me high school athletic administrators and coaches are bit concerned they don’t raid existing sports for the benefit of a new one
CUT : Hoffman on concerns
WIAA vote results won’t be known for a few weeks
CUT: Tyler Lockett pushing flag football
If it is a thumbs up, Washington becomes the 12th state in the country to sanction girls high school flag football.
I’m Bill Swartz, Northwest