HARRISBURG — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting… The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) board of directors voted Wednesday afternoon, 32-0, to adopt the sport of girls flag football, beginning in the 2025-26 school year. Some schools around Pennsylvania have had girls flag teams for the past three years, but neither the PIAA nor WPIAL sponsored the sport.
The first season that the PIAA and WPIAL will sanction the sport is in the spring of 2026. However, there will be no PIAA championships that year; the PIAA championships will start in the spring of 2027. The WPIAL is part of the PIAA, and WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer said the league will also sanction the sport.
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“Girls flag football has become popular. I believe we’re the 13th state to fully sanction it,” PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said. “Recognizing it as a sport and hosting championships we feel is in the best interest of our student-athletes. It’s great.”
This is the second girls sport adopted by the PIAA in the past two years. The PIAA and WPIAL sponsored girls wrestling for the first time in the 2023-24 school year.
