Cowboys launch high school girl's flag football leagues across North Texas

To open up Women's Record Month, the Dallas Cowboys declared today the buildup of regional High School Girls Banner Soccer Leagues all over the Condition of Texas which will start very competitive play this Springtime 2025 along with support from the group and also its own partners.

Dallas Cowboys Co-Owner and also Main Brand Policeman Charlotte nc Jones was actually joined through Quarterback Dak Prescott as well as Stephanie Kwok, National Volleyball Organization Vice Head Of State of Banner Football at AT&T Arena for the kickoff push news.

The group shared information concerning the perks of participating in banner football-- physical and psychological physical fitness, inclusivity, gamesmanship, team effort, peace of mind and also additional-- along with specifying the growth of university women flag football in Texas and also the crew's advocacy to see the sport accredited by the Texas UIL.

"The Dallas Cowboys are actually delighted to see the rapid development of university females flag football in the Condition of Texas. Given that we initially partnered along with Ft Well worth ISD on their captain plan in 2022, the variety of colleges handling teams has taken off," stated Jones. "The lifestyle sessions as well as worths these girls will profit from the video game of volleyball expand well past touchdowns and team effort. Our company are likewise delighted that along with girls' flag football becoming an emerging sport at the collegiate level, the game can easily right now provide these young women a path to proceeding their learning at a much higher degree at the same time."

As component of the time, 32 of the 54 Dallas-Fort Well worth area senior high school ladies banner soccer plans joined a Shirt Reveal as well as Media Time shock as well as satisfy event at AT&T Stadium, along with student-athletes finding their activity jackets for the very first time and also joining a material image and also video clip shoot that featured headshots, staff pictures, as well as other social media seconds.

"The activity of soccer has actually given me so much," pointed out Prescott. "Currently, as a 'Girl Papa' on my own, I intend to thank the ladies for leading the way today, as well as for damaging barriers to expand the activity. It is crucial to possess female good example in sporting activities and also I am appreciative that the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL are actually aiding create brand new possibilities. Possessing flag volleyball as a way to inspire and encourage a well-balanced body and mind for gals is something our company can easily all cherish and support."

Over the last nine months, the Dallas Cowboys have actually teamed up with college areas as well as partners around the state to create varsity-level 7-on-7 systems which are going to participate in competitively in the Springtime of 2025.

These districts include:

• Dallas Independent School District – 22 Campuses
• Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District – 4 Campuses
• Crowley Independent School District – 2 Campuses
• Cedar Hill Independent School District – 1 Campus, 2 Teams
• Arlington Independent School District – 6 Campuses
• Uplift Education – 2 Campuses
• Duncanville Independent School District – 1 Campus
• DeSoto Independent School District – 1 Campus
• Fort Worth Independent School District – 15 Campuses, 16 Teams
• Austin Independent School District – 13 Campuses
• El Paso Region 19 Female Flag Football Pilot – 19 Campuses

"My only disappointment is actually that they did certainly not have ladies flag regulation football when I was maturing in Laredo. I was fair at ballet, yet I bet I will have been actually even better at quarterback," said Dallas ISD Superintendent of Schools Doctor Stephanie Elizalde, who is sustaining the development of high school females banner soccer through devoting all 22 Dallas ISD institutions to play this Spring. "I am grateful that this chance exists now, however, as well as I am counting on the 22 secondary schools in Dallas ISD to bring home the first gals banner soccer condition champion in Texas past."

The local leagues will participate in throughout the months of March, April and May at The Celebrity in Frisco, on school grounds or even at district facilities, with a championship tournament kept at Ford Center in Frisco in May.

In El Paso's Region 19, the Dallas Cowboys are actually working together along with the NFL and Houston Texans to assist 38 secondary school teams, representing eight West Texas school areas as component of the Region 19 Female Banner Football Aviator and also Champion. Along with support from the El Paso Sports Payment as well as City of El Paso, the NFL threw a first event in February through which getting involved institutions "drafted" their NFL market group association, along with the Cowboys taking 19 schools as well as the Houston Texans taking the remaining 19 universities.

Given that 2016, there has actually been a collective initiative coming from the NFL, its 32 Clubs as well as football partners to enhance secondary school girls banner football involvement all over the country. With these collaborative initiatives, over 500,000 woman individuals between the ages of 6 -17 play banner volleyball around the USA.

At the high school amount, 14 state athletic affiliations (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, The Golden State, Colorado, Fla, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, The Big Apple, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, as well as Mississippi) have actually formally sanctioned females' flag football as an university sporting activity. Over 50 colleges and universities are supplying banner volleyball as a females's university sport throughout the NAIA, NJCAA, as well as NCAA before the video game premiering at the 2028 Summer Months Olympics in Los Angeles.

"Flag football is just one of the fastest growing sporting activities, and that momentum has simply sped up with its own introduction in the 2028 Olympics," stated Kwok. "Texas has actually always been a home of leading soccer talent: 6 participants of the U.S.A. Volleyball Women's Flag National Crew hail from Texas. The new local Senior high school Girls Flag Regulation football Leagues sustained by the Dallas Cowboys will definitely provide even more possibilities for girls to compete in flag regulation football, make a college scholarship, as well as vie for an opportunity to embody their country in the Olympics."

The project is actually likewise initiated by Danny McCray, previous NFL and also Cowboys defensive spine that has actually thrown his passion into finding the organization be successful as well as increase greatly in both the past and in the years to follow-- presently functioning as the manager of youth regulation football development for the Cowboys and also operating in a number of capacities to press its development because 2022.

He also manages upwards of 40 camping grounds each year from soccer, flag regulation football (young boys and also ladies), joy and also dancing.

"It's big," McCray stated of the Woman's Flag Volleyball League. "Our team've put a ton of operate in to make certain these girls have the possibility to play this game as well as perhaps acquire total scholarships to visit college as well as probably play in the Olympics. It is actually huge to see this acquire come up with such as this. Our company are actually thrilled about it.

"With the work Charlotte nc (Jones) has performed and also certainly, the Genetics & Jerry Jones Base, it's an instance that once the Cowboys support one thing, just how swiftly every person else does at the same time. The Cowboys have gone to the center of this, as well as it's aided relocate the needle as well as shine some light on this sport."

McCray additionally resolved the females to not only congratulate them, however to likewise advise them of the accountability of providing it their all with every agent in the course of every practice and in every game.

Officially, and as McCray stated, the Cowboys are actually doing work in relationship along with Gene and Jerry Jones Family Base and also the NFL, yet extra business partnerships consist of USA Soccer, NFL BANNER, Nike, Bridgestone, Oakley, as well as others to sustain the accumulation of varsity-level ladies flag football organizations all over the State of Texas, along with the goal of having actually the sport taken on statewide by the UIL.

Each university district taking part in the Dallas Cowboys secondary school ladies banner soccer regional organizations received grant funds to assist along with training gratuities and also other start-up prices, team attires, tools plans from U.S.A. Volleyball, mentoring education and learning, and also general assistance coming from NFL FLAG.

In alliance along with the Cowboys, Nike is actually giving activity jackets for all institutions playing in the club's secondary school females flag soccer games this Spring at no cost to the school or student-athlete. This addition displays Nike's continuing dedication to carrying women in to the activity of flag volleyball, producing gender equity in secondary school sports, as well as supporting and motivating the newest generation of female sportsmens.

In addition to shirts, Nike has actually supplied student-athletes the chance to find out more about the activity during the course of the label's annual Girls Flag Football Jamboree organized at Ford Facility at The Star in January and also will certainly show a Girls Banner Volleyball Kickoff Weekend on March 22 at B.F. Phillips Park in Frisco for all getting involved teams to experience a set of show video games ahead of their official season begin.

Bridgestone signed up with the Dallas Cowboys in developing the activity of ladies flag soccer through sustaining the nightclub's Southern Area Organization-- Cedar Hillside Reddish, Cedar Hill Black, Crowley, North Crowley, Duncanville, DeSoto, Uplift Grand Preparatory School and Uplift Hampton Preparatory School. Via this partnership, Bridgestone supplied give funds for each and every school-- featuring transportation stipends, activity day logistic costs and also additional. Schools playing in the Southern Area are going to additionally use an unique Bridgestone Dallas Cowboys patch on their jacket as part of this collaboration.

Oakley, a glad companion of the Dallas Cowboys, U.S.A. Volleyball and also NFL FLAG will entertain a females flag soccer Trainers Facility on March 4 at Thomas Jefferson Senior High School in Dallas to raise the flag volleyball landscape as well as offer young athletes and trains with information, encouraging possibilities and access to top-quality equipment, featuring Oakley's sunlight and also prescribed eyewear. The clinic is going to include U.S.A. Soccer Expert Trainers and Dallas Cowboys Young people Soccer Development instructors, sharing banner volleyball specific skill-sets and methods, strategy, strategy organizing and also guidelines emphasis. Referees from the Texas Affiliation of Athletics Officials are going to also reside in presence in anticipation of covering the senior high school girls flag volleyball games throughout the season.

Other Dallas Cowboys companions teaming up along with the group on the excellence of the Girls Flag Football local games feature: Kendra Scott, Gatorade, and also DairyMAX.

In 2022, the Dallas Cowboys partnered with Fort Really worth ISD to launch a Springtime pilot league for gals' flag regulation football, that included 16 groups (representing 15 colleges) and much more than 300 student-athletes. Implemented via limited financing coming from Gene and Chamber Pot Jones Family Members Foundation, the NFL Foundation and Nike, the Fort Worth ISD ladies flag regulation football league was just one of the first scholastically arranged female banner initiatives for a social school unit in the Condition of Texas. Now going into Year 4 of play, the Fortress Well worth plan has actually functioned as a version for the Cowboys brand new local ladies flag football organizations all over the Condition of Texas.

In overall, the secondary school systems aided by the Dallas Cowboys as well as their companions this Spring will influence roughly 2,000 women student-athletes via the activity of flag soccer.