The football of the women’s flag could be the next sport to take the NCAA by assault.
A handful of institutes of Division I, such as Mount St. Mary’s and Alabama State, have added university teams, and some conferences at the division level II and III are taking their first steps playing complete seasons. Last month, the Atlantic East of Division III was the first NCAA League to play a full season of women’s flag football and guilty with a conference championship.
The sport has the support of the NFL and will be at the Olympic Games in 2028 when summer games arrive at Los Angeles. Meanwhile, NCAA has recommended adding it to its emerging sports program for women.
In the Power 4 in division I, there is at least one athletic director who seems to be seriously adding the sport at the university level.
As part of his new Husker games, an event to replace the spring football game, Nebraska organized a exhibition flag soccer contest with some of its athletes students who face the University of Midland, a Naia school with a university program. Despite the talented field of Campo de Nebraska, Dylan Raiola, playing a handful of snapshots, Midland’s much more experimental women easily won, 60-0, on April 26.
While the score was unequal, at least person at the Memorial Stadium of 85,458 seats was in love with the game and paying close attention: the Atlético director of Nebraska, Troy Dannen.
In an interview with the sports of the Huskers Radio Network, last week, last week, he dedicated himself to Nebraska could a university women’s flag football program in the near future.
“Flag football is really being pushed by the NFL. And many states have sanctioned it at the secondary school level. Anyone that we are going to another women’s sport here in Nebraska from the point of view of title IX, and the flag of those women nicknamed me to Dace Wome mod-“. I think it is something that we must all closely monitor the football of the women’s flag. “
Currently, according to the NCAA, some 65 schools have flag football teams at the university or club level, but to consider the status of championship, at least 40 NCAA programs will need to sponsor the football of the women’s flag as a wars within 10 years. These 40 teams would also have to meet the minimums in the games played and the player participation.
At this time, there are only some schools in the ranks of Division I that will sponsor the football of the women’s flag at the university level next year, but none of them in ACC, SEC, Big Ten or Big 12.
If Dannen and Nebraska act on their interests in sport quickly, cornhuskers could be the first to launch a team in the ranks of Power 4.
