A new varsity sport of flag football for girls is coming to Danville High School. Bill Pickett has the details….
The District 118 Board of Education approved the new sport during a meeting tonight after hearing from D. H. S. Athletic Director Mark Bacys….
{AUDIO: “If approved tonight Danville will be the first team south of Kankakee to have approved flag football for girls. The state, the Bears – they’re looking to us to build this in the central part and the southern part of the state.”}
Bacys says the Chicago Bears have agreed to help kick-off the girls flag football program in Danville….
{AUDIO: “The Bears have reached out to us. They’re willing to do whatever they can to help us through referee clinics here in Danville – some jamborees in the summer to help allow other teams in this area to come and to see what it’s going to look like.”}
Girls flag football is already being played in Chicago area schools, and Bacys says it’s been successful…
{AUDIO: “What we’ve heard from the Chicago Public Schools, and the schools in the Chicago suburbs, is that girls that play no sports have come out in large numbers for flag football. And interestingly that’s because nobody has played before. And so everybody is at the same level. You’re not feeling awkward that – oh, they might be better than me. They’re all coming to it at the exact same level.”}
Bacys says more than sixty girls at Danville High School and North Ridge Middle School have expressed an interest in participating in the games already in surveys taken this week. “We all know the results when kids get involved,’’ added Bacys, “they do better.”
