Cincinnati (WXIX) – Football is back this weekend at the Paycer Stadium, but it is the girls who plant their flag on the Bengals field.
The second season of Bengals Girls Flag Football will start with a ham at the Paycer Stadium on Saturday March 8. More than 300 girls and 40 coaches are expected to be on the stadium to hear the Bengals head coach, Zac Taylor, participate in exercises and a scrum to launch the next season.
“We have sport punished in fourteen states of the country now, we hope that Ohio is one of the next people to board,” said Taylor Conklin, director of Bengals. “I think that when we see the Olympic Games in 2028 with Girls Flag (Football), it will continue to explode.”
Six teams played during the inaugural season of Bengal women’s football, but it has gone to 20 teams this season. Each local high school team will play 8 to 10 regular season games and the Bengals will host the championship in May.
“We would like to see, over the next two years, 50 participating or more secondary schools,” added Conklin. “We worked with the OHSAA, with the NFL flag, with the Cleveland Browns for an effort on a state scale to obtain this sanctioned.”
Opening jamboree coincides with International Women’s Day.
Mount Notre Dame won the inaugural championship last season.
“Many of them are simply excited, especially those who participated last year to go with a season to their credit, then girls, that it is the first time that participation is really exciting for them too,” said Conklin. “Some of them, I would say more than 50%, have never played a sport in high school before, so we see girls returning to participation in sports, which, I think, is always exciting to see as an organization too.”
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