From college scholarships to Olympic dreams, girls flag football is creating opportunities that didn’t exist a few years ago. Sound of flag footballREPORTER: Joslyn is a star athlete in Sacramento, part of a new generation helping shape the future of girls’ flag football. Before the girls’ flag football started blowing up. But in 2023, California officially made girls flag football a sanctioned high school sport. They had a boy’s 7 v 7 football team and even hosted their own tournaments, combines and workouts, way before girls flag football started cracking.