{"id":605965,"date":"2026-02-21T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/605965\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:12:13","slug":"girls-flag-football-is-finding-place-in-travel-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/605965\/","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":3,"featured_media":605966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[260595,260592,1582,276,11067,260594,47262,9872,6527,2961,260596,224,5337,92008,6566,26527,260593,2549,260591,1628],"class_list":["post-605965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-all-baseline-league","tag-all-star-team","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-camp","tag-denver-de-jongh","tag-flag-football","tag-girl","tag-girls","tag-la","tag-leah-davis","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-mater-dei","tag-place","tag-rise","tag-several-high-school-athlete","tag-southern-california","tag-travel-competition","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116109033452924610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}