Why is high school football considered an education-based sport?
Because players learn life lessons that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Being a good teammate. Treating others with respect. Finding ways to improve. Being accountable, adaptable and dependable.
These are just some of the ways that players develop character on the high school football field and grow as people off the field too.
Talk to your high school’s athletic director or football coach about how your student can sign up to play.
You don’t have to leave a sport out to stand out.
Girls across the country can now dream a new dream: being a flag football player.
Joe Carter watched his World Series-winning walkoff homerun float over the Skydome fence in 1993.
The second week of September is the peak of the high school football season, with 7,246 games across the country.