Attended my first Girls' Flag Football (7 x 7) games last night (my wife is a high school AD) here in Sumner County, Tennessee. I was amazed at the participation in only the first year of play. All our county public schools play in one league, with one 6-A, four 5-A, two 4-A and one 3-A schools competing. Each team plays two games per Saturday with two 20-minute running clock halves per game (takes less than an hour per game with a 3-minute halftime). The season is short, with each team playing a total of eight games on four Saturdays. Our newest high school hosts the league as they use their main football field and their practice field. Wednesday night's games were a makeup due to the storms cancelling last Saturday's schedule.

Our team has about 40 girls on the roster for Varsity and JV (our school enrollment is about 1,500). Even the 3-A school had about 20 girls on their Varsity team. Williamson County and Metro Nashville started play last year. Lots of soccer players on the rosters (Girls' soccer is a fall sport in TN). For Title IX purposes, it is a big winner.

We are also starting Girls' lacrosse in Fall 2025. Also wish Tennessee would add archery as a co-ed sport like Kentucky has. Again, great participation for the ladies (and boys) and not expensive to field a team.

Something similar was started in the Louisville Metro area a year or two back.  There are about a dozen teams in the area who compete in girls flag football in the fall.  I don't think it's sponsored by the KHSAA just yet, but last fall, Assumption beat Central to win the championship.  There was quite a bit of participation with most teams having 20+ girls.

Courier Journal coverage story of the girls' flag football championship game last fall:

Louisville girls flag football: Assumption tops Central in title game

It's coming as a sanctioned sport within the KHSAA soon & IT WILL TAKE over. I think it will greatly effect soccer and/or softball, depending on if it's set to play in the fall or spring, in particular at many of our smaller independent/rural county schools.

A good friend of mine used to HSFB in Florida, and a few years ago he was asked to coach their girls Flag/7v7 team that late winter/early spring? He said on days where baseball, softball and girls 7v7 was all at home?

Guess where the biggest crowd was?

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37 minutes ago, Calico Jack said:

It's coming as a sanctioned sport within the KHSAA soon & IT WILL TAKE over. I think it will greatly effect soccer and/or softball, depending on if it's set to play in the fall or spring, in particular at many of our smaller independent/rural county schools.

A good friend of mine used to HSFB in Florida, and a few years ago he was asked to coach their girls Flag/7v7 team that late winter/early spring? He said on days where baseball, softball and girls 7v7 was all at home?

Guess where the biggest crowd was?

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We had two softball players that came from their game to play in the 2nd half of the flag football last night. With flag football normally on Saturdays they can still play but they don't get to practice much due to softball. As I said earlier, Girls Soccer is a Fall sport (Boys Soccer plays in the Spring to not conflict with football) in TN so there are a lot of soccer players playing flag football. There are several football coaches that are coaching flag football.  Our HC and one assistant are coaching our girls.

It’s going to be great. I hope my daughters do this. Highlands is already testing the waters on this. Long over due.