{"id":408261,"date":"2026-08-16T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408261\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:24:08","slug":"former-nfl-player-hosts-free-dallas-all-girls-flag-football-clinic-focused-on-giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408261\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL player hosts free Dallas all-girls flag football clinic, focused on giving back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may think of <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">flag football<\/a> as something for boys, but a former NFL player hosted an all-girls clinic Sunday at Bishop Lynch High School in <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Girlpower Flag Football Dallas is a program for girls ages five through 18. About 100 girls of all experience levels were expected to attend the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Former St. Louis Rams running back Trey Watts helmed the event, and he hopes to show girls the importance of persevering through struggles. He played as a walk-on at the University of Tulsa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rams signed him as an undrafted free agent, where he had a two-year career in the NFL. Watts has been vocal about being suspended indefinitely from the league for violating the substance-abuse policy. He&#8217;s now a motivational speaker and author of &#8220;The ALTAR Method: From Broken to Restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has a five-year-old daughter and plans on giving back to other young girls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My daughter is starting kindergarten this year, and part of why this matters so much to me is wanting girls her age to grow up believing they belong in football too,&#8221; Watts said.<\/p>\n<p>Girlpower Flag Football Dallas will host clinics in the fall and in the spring of 2027. <a href=\"https:\/\/girlpowerflag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may think of flag football as something for boys, but a former NFL player hosted an all-girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,36719,154],"class_list":["post-408261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-flag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408261","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=408261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}