{"id":398869,"date":"2026-08-06T01:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:42:15","slug":"dallas-college-adding-womens-flag-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398869\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas College Adding Women&#8217;s Flag Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas College and six of its campuses will add varsity women&#8217;s flag football beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. The six DAC schools that will launch programs and begin competing in the 2027 spring season are Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, Eastfield, Mountain View, North Lake, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/jacksonville-eyeing-varsity-team-in-future-richland-saint-josephs-and-st-clair-adding-flag-football\/#njcaas-richland-and-st-clair-adding-flag-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richland<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All six schools are part of the Dallas Athletic Conference and compete in the NJCAA. Two other NJCAA conferences sponsor flag football: the Alabama Community College Conference (ACCC) and the Florida College Systems Activities Association (FCSAA).<\/p>\n<p>The NJCAA is set for tremendous growth in the 2026-27 academic year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/alex-tech-ollu-adding-womens-flag-football-midway-to-launch-in-2027\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandria Technical and Community College<\/a> (MN), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/seven-njcaa-schools-receive-flag-football-grants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camden County College<\/a> (NJ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/bryant-stratton-syracuse-and-central-alabama-adding-flag-fooball-two-more-clubs-joining-nirsa\/#central-alabama-cc-adding-flag-football-names-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Alabama Community College<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/dawson-massasoit-and-st-lawrence-adding-womens-flag-football-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dawson Community College<\/a> (MT), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/john-carroll-enteprise-state-rcsj-gloucester-adding-varsity-flag-football\/#two-njcaa-programs-joining-2026-27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise State Community College<\/a> (AL), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/guilford-college-jackson-state-cc-adding-womens-flag-football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson State Community College<\/a> (TN), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/dawson-massasoit-and-st-lawrence-adding-womens-flag-football-teams\/#massasoit-community-college-adding-flag-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Massasoit Community College<\/a> (MA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/greenville-murray-state-college-adding-flag-football\/#njcaas-murray-state-adding-varsity-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Murray State College<\/a> (OK), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/rowan-college-of-south-jersey-cumberland-adding-flag-football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rowan College of South Jersey-Cumberland<\/a> (NJ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/john-carroll-enteprise-state-rcsj-gloucester-adding-varsity-flag-football\/#two-njcaa-programs-joining-2026-27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester<\/a> (NJ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/saint-benedict-and-richard-bland-adding-womens-flag-football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Bland College<\/a> (VA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/franklin-pierce-george-mason-southern-union-unt-dallas-and-westfield-adding-flag-football\/#southern-union-adding-varsity-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Union State Community College<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/jacksonville-eyeing-varsity-team-in-future-richland-saint-josephs-and-st-clair-adding-flag-football\/#njcaas-richland-and-st-clair-adding-flag-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Clair County Community College<\/a> (MI) are set to launch programs for next season.<\/p>\n<p>With at least 20 new flag football teams, the NJCAA is expecting more than 30 programs to compete in the 2027 spring season. The 2026 spring campaign saw Florida Gateway College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/florida-gateway-wins-fourth-straight-njcaa-flag-football-title\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">capture its fourth straight title<\/a>, but only one invitational tournament remains. Beginning with the 2027-28 academic year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/njcaa-adds-womens-flag-football-as-a-championship-sport-beginning-in-2028\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NJCAA will add women&#8217;s flag football as a championship sport<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 2026-27 NJCAA women&#8217;s flag football season will get underway at the end of August when the Alabama Community College Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateflagfootball.com\/womens-college-flag-football-newsletter-for-august-3-2026\/#2026-27-scheduling-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">begins conference play<\/a>. The Dallas College teams will compete in the spring, with the possibility of postseason play. The 2027 NJCAA Women&#8217;s Flag Football Invitational will be held at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas College and six of its campuses will add varsity women&#8217;s flag football beginning with the 2026-27 academic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-398869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}