Bloomberg - "Flag Football’s Boom Is Shaking Up Youth Sports"
"According to data from the National Federation of State High School Associations, more than 100,000 American high school girls played flag football at school during the 2025-26 academic year, which constitutes a 48% jump from the previous year and an increase of more than 550% from just five years ago. By the NFL’s numbers, approximately 800,000 girls from age 6 to 17 now compete in some capacity. In a 2025 report, Project Play, the Aspen Institute’s youth sports initiative, found that flag football was the only team sport that grew its overall participation among American kids from 2014 to 2024. The report’s authors put it bluntly: “In the decades to come, we may view youth sports as two eras — before flag football exploded and after.”"
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