{"id":494657,"date":"2026-02-21T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:30:07","slug":"girls-flag-football-is-finding-place-in-travel-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494657\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls&#8217; flag football is finding place in travel competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The rise of girls\u2019 flag football is following a familiar path. There now are travel teams with girls competing in offseason competitions as all-star teams similar to seven-on-seven football tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utrsportsmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Under The Radar sports media,<\/a> which for years has shot videos for YouTube and been involved in 11-man football competitions, is sponsoring a flag football team gaining attention for its success this year.<\/p>\n<p>Called the Ballerettes, the team has several high school athletes from Southern California. <\/p>\n<p>Leah Davis is a sophomore from Upland who was All-Baseline League. Denver De Jongh was a standout freshman at Mater Dei. <br \/>Savvy Su\u2019e was the freshman quarterback at Banning last season. She also plays softball and basketball.<\/p>\n<p>As participation and popularity rise, you can expect more travel competitions,  camps and  opportunities for college recruiting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rise of girls\u2019 flag football is following a familiar path. There now are travel teams with girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[249431,249428,64,63,20871,249430,6095,596,32385,29732,249432,80621,5948,19306,249429,25151,85,249427,1547],"class_list":{"0":"post-494657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-all-baseline-league","9":"tag-all-star-team","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-camp","13":"tag-denver-de-jongh","14":"tag-flag-football","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-girl","17":"tag-girls","18":"tag-leah-davis","19":"tag-mater-dei","20":"tag-place","21":"tag-rise","22":"tag-several-high-school-athlete","23":"tag-southern-california","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-travel-competition","26":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}