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Women's gridiron football, more commonly known as women's tackle football, women's American football, women's Canadian football, or simply women's football, is a form of gridiron football (American or Canadian) played by women. Most leagues play by similar rules to the men's game.
The league folded after the 1985 football season when Hopewell-Loudon, North Baltimore, St. Wendelin and Seneca East left for the Midland Athletic League. This left Danbury, Northwood, and Ottawa Hills as independents until Northwood joined the Suburban Lakes League in 1986 and the other two joined the Toledo Area Athletic Conference in 1988.
In the past five years, girls like Abbi Strack have been hitting the turf and leaving stereotypes behind. While it has become more common for high schools to include girls on their football teams ...
Tonya Fletcher – One of the very few female players in the state of Illinois to have tried and succeeded in playing high school football as of 1998, along with Tina Brooks of Wauconda High. [93] Fletcher was a kicker for Cary Grove High School, who was named homecoming queen in 1998, [94] and was featured in Mary-Kate and Ashley Magazine in ...
Flag football, backed by the NFL and some of its former stars, is a girls high school varsity sport in 13 states and became the fastest growing sport in the U.S. between from 2019 to 2023.
It is the first known full-contact all-girls youth tackle football league ever. [13] According to the organizers, the league filled up completely just three days after sign-ups began. [11] Around 50 fifth and sixth-graders took part in the inaugural season, which was just four-weeks, compared to the current nine-week season. [9]
They rose as one, a group of about 20 high school girls standing in front of the Irvine Unified School District Board of Education, each raising a piece of paper with a different word scribbled.