“We go out every Friday night and watch our boys team play, and being able to have a similar experience as them and being able to throw the ball and do things that you saw in your childhood is fun,” says Junior Lila Colegrove.

For the last few weeks, players on the first-ever Paso Robles High School girls' flag football team have been preparing for their debut.

"We were supposed to have it last year, but we didn't have time to get it off the ground, but the girls were really interested," says coach Ken Hammond.

Hammond says that when interest was gauged last year, there were about 50 girls interested in playing the sport; now the team has a full roster of 21 girls.

Hammond said some students "talked to the school board about implementing the flag football program here for, for our girl

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