Blazing a Trail | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

During the 2021-22 school year, Long Island became the latest location to add Girls Flag Football as a varsity sport — | dG1fLVFaOGxoVmJuWVU

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00:00It's not the easy thing to do to be the first one to do something.

00:15I had no idea flag football was a thing.

00:19I had never seen an opportunity for girls to play football.

00:22They've always dreamed of playing but never could because there's no equivalent.

00:30I enjoyed the challenge or the experience of building the program.

00:39From the beginning, I only ever saw it as just football.

00:43I kind of thought it was going to be like a two to three day a week thing.

00:47I didn't really think we were going to be that competitive.

00:51And then we had the scrimmage.

00:55I honestly felt defeated.

00:57We're not going to win a game, are we?

01:01All my friends who weren't playing were kind of like, oh, it's a little weird.

01:05So I was kind of going along with it saying, yeah, sure, it was a joke.

01:07I'm not taking this serious. I'll be doing cartwheels at practice.

01:10Like, I don't care. This isn't my sport.

01:13It's much easier to not care about something so that if you lose, it doesn't matter because you didn't care.

01:18It's much harder to put your heart on the field.

01:22Learning how to play flag for fall to patience.

01:27Just a lot of dedication and belief in yourself.

01:33That was our last chance to win an LIC and a county champ.

01:37It speaks volumes about where this country is headed and inclusively.

01:48It was so much bigger than just the team and just like our personal needs to win.

01:53You're interested to win.

01:54You're interested to win.

01:59And you're interested to win.

02:01You