Women's Flag Football Is Now on ProductiveRecruit

Women's flag football is officially one of the fastest-growing sports in America — and it's not slowing down. With its debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the NCAA's new Emerging Sport for Women designation, and the NFL investing $32 million into professional leagues, the sport has gone from recreational to revolutionary in just a few years.

We're excited to announce that ProductiveRecruit now fully supports Women's Flag Football as a sport on our platform. Whether you're a high school athlete dreaming of playing in college or a flag football club looking to give your athletes a recruiting edge, we've got you covered.

Why Now Is the Time to Start Recruiting

The numbers speak for themselves. High school girls' flag football participation has surged 388% since 2021, with nearly 69,000 athletes competing in the 2024-25 season. Sixteen states have officially sanctioned it as a high school sport, with 18 more running pilot programs. At the youth level, NFL FLAG alone serves over 830,000 participants, with girls' participation growing 21% year-over-year.

On the college side, the landscape is expanding fast. Over 200 college programs are now competing across NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA institutions. The NAIA — which pioneered college flag football in 2021 with just 15 schools — now has 35 programs. And when the NCAA officially added flag football to its Emerging Sports for Women program in January 2026, it put the sport on a clear path toward full championship status as early as 2028-29.

Major schools are already jumping in. The University of Nebraska became the first Power Four school to announce a women's flag football program, with plans for 15 scholarships in 2026-27 scaling to 25 by 2028-29. Conferences like the Atlantic East, Conference Carolinas, CIAA, Empire 8, and the ECAC are all launching programs. The ECAC's new league — funded by a $1 million grant from the New York Jets' foundation — spans 15 schools across six states.

The bottom line: college coaches are actively building rosters from scratch, and there are far more open spots than athletes to fill them. That gap won't last forever.

An Olympic Sport With a Pro Pathway

Flag football will make its Olympic debut at the 2028 LA Games — the first time any form of American football has appeared at the Olympics. Both men's and women's tournaments will feature six nations competing in 5-on-5 play, with the U.S. Women's National Team already the three-time reigning World Champions.

And the pathway doesn't stop at college. NFL owners unanimously voted to invest $32 million into launching professional flag football leagues for both men and women, selecting TMRW Sports (backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy) as the operational partner. Several other professional leagues are launching in 2026 as well. For the first time, women's flag football has a complete athlete pipeline: youth leagues → high school → college → professional → the Olympics.

How ProductiveRecruit Works for Flag Football Athletes

Getting recruited doesn't have to be complicated. Here's how ProductiveRecruit helps flag football athletes take control of their college recruiting process:

1. Sign up and create your profile — Build your recruiting profile highlighting your flag football experience, stats, highlights, and academic info.
2. Connect your Gmail — Link your personal Gmail account directly to ProductiveRecruit. No more juggling between platforms.
3. Email college coaches directly — Access our database of college flag football coaches and reach out to them straight from your inbox. Track opens, clicks, and replies so you know exactly which coaches are engaged.

ProductiveRecruit puts you in the driver's seat. You control who you contact, when you contact them, and how you follow up. No middlemen, no gatekeepers — just a direct line between you and the coaches who are building these programs right now.

Flag Football Clubs: Partner With Us

If you run a flag football club or organization, we'd love to work with you. ProductiveRecruit offers bulk partnership pricing so you can provide all of your athletes with full access to the platform at a significant discount.

Your athletes get the complete ProductiveRecruit experience — profile building, Gmail integration, coach outreach, and engagement tracking. And as an organization, you get your own dedicated dashboard to track athlete activity, create shared email templates, generate team brochures for tournaments, manage staff access, and much more. Check out our full list of features to see everything that's included.

Interested in a club partnership? Contact us to learn more about pricing and getting your athletes started.

The Window Is Wide Open

Here's the reality: women's flag football went from zero college programs to 200+ in five years. Scholarships are real and growing. Coaches are recruiting founding rosters. And institutions are incentivized to add the sport because it counts toward Title IX compliance — meaning more programs are coming, fast.

But right now, the supply of roster spots far exceeds the number of athletes actively recruiting. The athletes who start their recruiting journey today are positioning themselves at the front of the line for scholarships and roster spots that will only get more competitive.

Don't wait for the sport to catch up to you. Get ahead of it.

Sign up for ProductiveRecruit today and start emailing college flag football coaches.