Flag football has been added to the NCAA’s Emerging Sports for Women program and four other women’s sports were elevated to championship status, the NCAA announced Friday.
Flag football has been one of the fastest-growing sports at the youth, high school and collegiate levels and will debut as an Olympic sport for men and women in 2028.
There were about 40 NCAA schools with women’s flag football teams in 2025, and the NCAA projected 60 could be competing this spring.
Nebraska on Friday announced it would be the first power conference school to add flag football as a varsity women’s sport, with competition beginning in the spring of 2028.
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