commercial<\/a> promoting the sanctioning of the sport in all 50 states.<\/p>\nMunoz, a senior at Round Rock High School, said she was initially surprised by the Texans\u2019 news.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been \u2014 not only [Texas] Fury, but other teams across Texas \u2014 trying to get flag football as a UIL sanctioned sport for a while. And so I was really, frankly, surprised,\u201d she said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting flag to be a school sport at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now that the opportunity is here, Munoz said she\u2019s looking forward to representing her school on the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I think about flag and representing the school, that\u2019s just really exciting to me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to really push flag out there and really make it a big sport, especially in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The NFL\u2019s Houston Texans plan to expand their girls\u2019 flag football program to two Austin-area school districts this spring. (Courtesy | The Houston Texans)<\/p>\n
Munoz will also be joined on the field by a familiar face \u2014 her high school assistant softball coach, Ashley Castro.<\/p>\n
Castro was recently named as Round Rock High School\u2019s new girls\u2019 flag football coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really cool that as a senior [Munoz] gets to do this and represent her school,\u201d Castro said. \u201cI just want other girls to realize this is something that\u2019s never been done before \u2026 and realize that this is an excellent opportunity and something that we\u2019re going to need down the line to show UIL that we\u2019re serious about the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Castro, who plays the sport for a club team herself, said she\u2019s been pushing for this opportunity for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout two years ago, I went to a summer conference \u2026 [and] sat in on a session about girls flag football. [The Dallas Cowboys] had started a pilot program in Fort Worth,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018I think this would be something that girls in our area would really enjoy and really appreciate. What do we need to do to get on board?’\u201d<\/p>\n
So, Castro said, she and other coaches in the district reached out to the Texans.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen this opportunity arose \u2026 I absolutely was ecstatic,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Houston Texans have said they will pretty much pay for all the equipment, all the gear, and all of the uniforms. They\u2019re taking care of that 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the expectation is that teams in the league will play a four-week regular season in April, and a two week postseason in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what you see on TV right now with NFL Flag during the Super Bowl commercials, during playoff commercials \u2026 like these girls just want to be a part of something that\u2019s way bigger than what\u2019s offered right now,\u201d Castro said. \u201cI think it\u2019ll be good for not only for the girls here on campus, but the community as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other Austin-area teams confirmed to participate in the league include: Westwood High School, McNeil High School, Connally High School, Hendrickson High School, Pflugerville High School and Weiss High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL\u2019s Houston Texans plan to expand their girls\u2019 flag football program to two Austin-area school districts this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[4530,7,6791,2682,221,253,2368,820,88,6,9,222,51,10573],"class_list":{"0":"post-307891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-flag-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-girls-flag-football","11":"tag-high-school-football","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-houstontexans","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-texans","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-university-interscholastic-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115071034046127690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The NFL\u2019s Houston Texans plan to expand their girls\u2019 flag football program to two Austin-area school districts this spring. (Courtesy | The Houston Texans)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/flag-football-handouts-04.JPG\")
The NFL\u2019s Houston Texans plan to expand their girls\u2019 flag football program to two Austin-area school districts this spring. (Courtesy | The Houston Texans)<\/p>\n