FEBRUARY 14, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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1. What Has to Happen Next for Flag Football to Become an NCAA Sport

by Margaret Fleming, Front Office Sports

“Flag football has cleared another step to becoming an officially sanctioned NCAA varsity sport.

On Wednesday, the NCAA’s committee on women’s athletics voted in support of giving flag football a key designation that would move it one step closer to official college sports.

The committee voted to recommend that the NCAA’s three divisions place flag football in the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program, which has converted rowing, ice hockey, water polo, bowling, beach volleyball, and wrestling into varsity women’s sports since its inception in 1994.

So what does flag football need to become a championship-level sport?”

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