On spring weekends across the St. Louis area, girls are filling football fields once dominated by boys — pulling flags, scoring touchdowns and building one of the region’s fastest-growing youth sports.
Now, that growth could soon reach the high school level, as the Missouri State High School Activities Association moves toward making girls flag football an official sport.
MSHSAA member schools voted last year to designate flag football as an emerging sport, putting it on a path to full accreditation. There are 53 schools statewide offering the sport, including 17 in the St. Louis area.
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