Sf. Louis – Flag soccer is a step nearer to being a aggressive sport for highschool women on either side of the Mississippi River.
On Thursday, the Affiliation of Actions of the Missouri State Excessive Faculty launched the outcomes of the annual poll. A query to ask the member colleges if women soccer ought to be designated as an “rising” sport has handed 73.eight%.
The 2024-2025 college yr was the primary yr through which the women’ flag soccer was acknowledged as an interscholastic sport in Illinois.
No less than 4 colleges within the East subway plan the sector groups subsequent fall.
In Missouri, the “rising” sports activities identify is meant for sport within the first yr or sport that don’t have 50 colleges representing not less than three of the eight Mshsaa Council districts.
As soon as the values of illustration are fulfilled, a course of for a number of years would result in an interscholastic championship sport sanctioned by Mshsaa.
There are not less than 14 states which have sanctioned the soccer of ladies as highschool sport. Sport is in a interval of maximum progress and recognition on a number of ranges. It was the 12th hottest women’ sport in 2023-24, with 42,955 individuals, in line with the Nationwide Licies Federation, and nearly half one million women between the ages of 6 and 17 performed soccer in 2023, in line with NFL Flag.
Naia, the administration physique for sports activities at over 200 massive colleges, sponsored the Sports activities Championships in 2021.
In February, the NCAA Committee for girls’s athletics advisable to the laws of Division I, II and III to sponsor so as to add flag soccer to the NCAA Rising Sports activities for Ladies program. No less than 65 NCAA colleges sponsor ladies soccer for girls at membership stage or varsity ranges this yr, with extra schedules to affix in 2026. The flag soccer was additionally added as a sport for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.