04/27/2026
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The Missouri State High School Activities Association labeled girls flag football as an emerging sport in high schools.
By the 2027-28 school year, the sport could be fully accredited. There are 53 schools statewide offering the sport, including 17 in the St. Louis area.
That total clears the threshold for the next step in the process, which is to make flag football provisionally interscholastic.
For girls flag football to make the final jump and become fully interscholastic, that same number of schools would need to keep playing and schools would have to vote to approve it. If that happens, flag football would become an official high school sport in the 2027-28 school year, complete with a state championship.
Read more: https://www.stlpr.org/sports/2026-04-27/missouri-girls-flag-football-official-sport-2027