USA Football, the sport’s national governing body and a member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, has selected Cleveland Browns Chief of Staff Callie Brownson to serve as head coach of the 2022 U.S. Women’s Tackle National Team.
Shenell White, 15, is the only girl on the Deltona Wolves football teams. A sophomore, White is a starting running back on the offensive line of the Wolves’ junior-varsity team.
Alonnie Muldrow, left, and Jazmine Church play on the Westover Middle School’s football team.
If you happen to catch the Fairview Middle School Falcons on the football field this season, you may have noticed a long ponytail protruding from the back of one of the junior varsity helmets.
Football has always been a sport dominated by guys, but two Chicago sisters are showing the guys a thing or two this season.
Maia Chaka made history on Sunday, as she became the first Black woman to officiate an NFL game.
The future of football has flags. The future of football includes women and girls.
When eighth grader Ary Bachand stepped out onto the field as part of the Jordan Middle School football team last fall, no one on the competing side could tell she was a girl.
New Mexico Highlands’ Valerie Baca, a freshman from Porterville, Calif., is congratulated by teammates during Friday’s game against Fort Lewis in Las Vegas, N.M. Baca, Highlands’ first female football player, kicked a pair of extra points in the fourth quarter.
School history was made in the junior varsity team’s 30-0 victory over Cranston High School West as a familiar name and number to Patriots fans made its football debut.
No. 63, Teresa Andruzzi.
Adrienne Smith, creator of Blitz Champz, Boston Renegades Wide Receiver, football advocate and spokesperson, Orange is the New Black actress, and entrepreneur, has joined the American Flag Football League (AFFL) to head up the new Women’s Division. In this role, she will oversee football operations and corporate partnerships.
Moline students Caroline Hazen, Vivian Veto and Ruby Sepeda are playing high school football for the Maroons.
Adrienne Smith cannot be stopped. On the football field, she is a star receiver for the Boston Renegades, a three-time Women’s Football Alliance champion and a two-time International Federation of American Football Women’s World Champion. She’s an entrepreneur, a producer, but more than anything, she’s an advocate, pulling those around her up along with her.
Cahill, the former Uxbridge High basketball and softball all-star who was a standout guard at Princeton University, will enter her 18th year playing football when the Renegades resume practice for the 2021 season this month.
Not many people are brave enough to take a job billed as “anything and everything,” with a bit of “unpredictable” thrown in, too.
However, they aren’t Callie Brownson. In 2020, she saw an opportunity as Cleveland Browns’ Chief of Staff as a dream come true.
Number 10 for the Boston Renegades has compiled one of the most decorated careers in tackle and flag football in the game. Adrienne Smith’s receiver resume and stats go back more than 10 years.
Sarah Thomas is at the top of her game. The NFL referee will make history once again when she officiates Super Bowl LV on Feb. 7, becoming the first female to do so.
It was late February 2020 and Sam Rapoport was spearheading the NFL’s Women’s Careers in Football Forum, then in its fourth year.
It’s official: Jennifer King is the first full-time African-American female assistant position coach in NFL history.
While Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play during a regular-season game in one of college football’s Power 5 conferences by booting a kickoff on Saturday for Vanderbilt to start the second half against Missouri, Chattooga High School junior, Caroline Hodges has been kicking extra points for three seasons for the Indians.
Sarah Fuller joined Vanderbilt’s football team because other members of its kicking unit had close contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus.Credit…Getty Images
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