School athletics officials in Southern California will ask the state to make flag football an official high school sport for girls.<\/p>\n
The California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section voted at a Thursday meeting in Long Beach in favor of the plan, said Thom Simmons, the section’s assistant commissioner.<\/p>\n
The state body that governs interscholastic athletics in California is scheduled to take up the proposal on Oct. 7 and vote on it early next year.<\/p>\n
The move comes as more girls have been playing flag football in youth leagues and some high schoolers in Southern California have been playing in a pilot league started by the Los Angeles Chargers and LA Rams.<\/p>\n
Athletics officials hope that making it an official high school sport will increase participation and help coaches create a pipeline to develop players.<\/p>\n
The Southern Section is the biggest of the state federation’s ten regions with more than 550 member schools.<\/p>\n
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