Guides

Each guide rests on the same primary sources as the tracker, and links to them.

• How a state sanctions girls flag football
  What each association requires — participation thresholds, petitions, ballots, surveys and board votes — and what sanctioning does not settle.
• Girls flag football does not have one rulebook
  NFHS rules and the states that amend or replace them, equipment rules, seasons and classifications.
• What the flag football pathway actually looks like
  For players and parents: where the sport can be played in high school and college, and what is still being decided.

For college governing bodies and programmes, see College.