As part of the MEAC’s Soccer Media Day expertise, Norfolk State College hosted the convention’s second annual “Ladies on the Gridiron” flag soccer clinic, that includes instruction from NFL legend Michael Vick.
Convention commissioner Sonja Stills was extremely inspired by Saturday’s outcomes and hinted that the MEAC might presumably add girls’s flag soccer as a sponsored varsity sport sooner or later.
“This can be a nice partnership with the NFL to convey consciousness to girls’s flag soccer,” Stills informed ESPN’s Tiffany Greene at Tuesday’s Countdown to Kickoff, noting that attendance doubled in 2024 from final season’s inaugural clinic. “Hopefully, we’ll have an HBCU student-athlete enjoying girls’s flag soccer when it turns into a sport on the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.”
When requested by Greene if the convention was certainly contemplating including girls’s flag soccer, Stills confirmed the chance exists.
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“We’re significantly girls’s flag soccer,” she mentioned. “We’ve got establishments who presently have the game as a membership group, so we see there’s curiosity in bringing girls’s flag soccer as a sport.”
Stills added that girls’s flag soccer could possibly be a part of the MEAC’s strategic long-range plan so as to add extra varsity sports activities choices quickly.
Presently, there are two HBCUs that provide or will quickly provide girls’s flag soccer. NAIA faculty Florida Memorial started enjoying in 2021, whereas Alabama State will turn out to be the primary NCAA Division I HBCU with a group this coming educational faculty yr.
