played<\/a> that year \u2014 Terra Linda and San Marin high schools.<\/p>\nThis year, Novato and San Rafael high schools added teams. Marin now has four teams playing in division 2 of the North Coast Section, according to an online roster.<\/p>\n
Gilbert said he and other Marin boosters would like the Tam Union district to join with the Novato Unified School District and San Rafael City Schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a parent of a current seventh grader at Hall Middle School who is slated to attend Redwood High School, I want to express my full support for the formation of a girls flag football team,\u201d JaSin Carlen wrote in a letter to the Tam Union district. \u201cMy daughter is deeply interested in participating, and we were excited to see this momentum building.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe it\u2019s important for the district to recognize that strong interest in this sport exists, not only within the current student body, but also among incoming students and their families,\u201d Carlen said.<\/p>\n
Taupier disputes the level of interest described by Gilbert at the district board meeting on Tuesday. During the public comment period, Gilbert said there are \u201ccurrently 29 girls signed up to form a girls flag football team for the 2025-26 school year. A coach is ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis exceeds the number of players needed to form a team and fully satisfies the legal threshold under Title IX,\u201d Gilbert said.<\/p>\n
According to Taupier, about 24 girls expressed interest in joining the team at two meetings held at Redwood earlier this year. If even those girls are still interested, a team needs at least 14 players on the field per game, seven on defense and seven on offense, Taupier said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur past experience with other teams is that there is a 50% to 60% attrition rate between interest and actually coming out for a team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRedwood and all Tam District schools meet the Title IX criteria for compliance with proportional opportunity to participate in sports,\u201d she added. Redwood has 23 girls athletic teams, 21 boys athletic teams and one coed athletic team, Taupier said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese teams do not include sideline cheer, of which there are four teams,\u201d she said. \u201cOur athletes are also significantly proportional to our enrollment of boys and girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gilbert said he is undeterred by Tam Union\u2019s stance and will press the issue. He said he and other parents are petitioning the district to place the matter on the agenda for discussion at the May 20 board meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know it can be done,\u201d Gilbert said. \u201cTerra Linda High School launched its girls flag football team with just 15 girls. Redwood now has 29 \u2014 yet Tam District remains the only district refusing to act.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis delay is not due to lack of interest \u2014 it\u2019s policy being used as a barrier,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Rafael man lobbying the Tamalpais Union High School District to launch a girls flag football program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[14512,1443,14513,4947,10109,7,14514,3131,14515,14516,929,4247,14517,14518,14508,88,4438,14519,9,14509,14520,14510,14511,14521,14522],"class_list":{"0":"post-40298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-belvedere","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-corte-madera","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-fairfax","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-greenbrae","15":"tag-high-school-sports","16":"tag-kentfield","17":"tag-larkspur","18":"tag-latest-headlines","19":"tag-local-news","20":"tag-marin-city","21":"tag-marin-county","22":"tag-marin-schools","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newsletter","25":"tag-san-rafael","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tamalpais-union-high-school-district","28":"tag-terra-linda","29":"tag-terra-linda-football","30":"tag-terra-linda-high-school","31":"tag-tiburon","32":"tag-west-marin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114486262246688872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298","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=40298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}