{"id":187578,"date":"2026-02-21T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187578\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:08:09","slug":"girls-flag-football-is-finding-place-in-travel-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187578\/","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":187579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[88215,88212,7375,88214,34208,9514,9515,48,52,51,88216,47,50,49,10448,1410,6677,88213,1009,88211,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-187578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-all-baseline-league","9":"tag-all-star-team","10":"tag-camp","11":"tag-denver-de-jongh","12":"tag-flag-football","13":"tag-girl","14":"tag-girls","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-leah-davis","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-mater-dei","23":"tag-place","24":"tag-rise","25":"tag-several-high-school-athlete","26":"tag-southern-california","27":"tag-travel-competition","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}