{"id":873129,"date":"2026-04-23T23:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:18:54","slug":"kshsaa-approves-flag-football-church-related-practice-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873129\/","title":{"rendered":"KSHSAA approves flag football, church-related practice restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; State athletic officials have approved a couple of major changes to high school sports in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Kansas State High School Activities Association held its Spring Meeting Thursday. On the docket were votes to limit athletic activities or practice and sanction Girls Flag Football as a high school sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Approved first was the moratorium on activities during \u201ca consecutive four-day period (including Easter Sunday) beginning at 6 p.m. on the Thursday before Easter running through the duration of Easter Sunday,\u201d \u201con all Wednesdays from September until the end of April,\u201d or on \u201call Sundays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Next up was the effort \u201cto include Flag Football as a KSHSAA activity beginning with the 2026-27 school year.\u201d This had a large push behind it, including support from the Kansas City Chiefs. The decision passed on a nearly unanimous vote.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; State athletic officials have approved a couple of major changes to high school sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[4530,7,117604,5538,79111,8389,26438,9,4655],"class_list":{"0":"post-873129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-flag-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-girls-football","11":"tag-high-school","12":"tag-kshsaa","13":"tag-practices","14":"tag-schools","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-students"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116456584944272379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873129","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=873129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}