Bears hosted 1st girls flag football championship in Illinois. Officials want to make the game an IHSA-sanctioned sport by 2024.
CHICAGO — Kenwood Academy High School senior Kennedy Scott started tossing around the football with her twin brother in 2021 when he was getting ready to play tackle football for Urban Prep Academy.
“I trained with him and then all of a sudden, my school had a flag football program. So I joined,” she said. Last Saturday Scott did her part as wide receiver for Kenwood’s girls’ flag football team, at a state championship tournament for four high school girls flag football teams at Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall in Lake Forest. For someone who played basketball in her freshman year, it’s now all about football.
Scott’s mother Darlena James said the switch happened at a time when wearing a mask in basketball was “very challenging” for
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