Browns host 3rd annual Northeast Ohio Girls High School Flag Football Championship Tournament

On one Cleveland Browns Stadium evening, when stars went down and the united lights of the stadium lit the sport ground, the teams of the Berkshire and Kirtland high schools were on the field and played the championship game of the third annual Northeast Ohio Girls High School Flag Football Championship Tournament sponsored by Gatorade and together with Bridgestone. 
 
Kirtland then tied the game and engaged in a battle to the final seconds before the quarterback threw a pass and scored the final touchdown. People stood up from the stands clapping, family and friends joining the happy athletes who seemed to have won the game. As triumphant for the third time in four years that Northeast Ohio Flag Football initiated the league in 2021, the girls raised the 2024 Girls Flag championship trophy. 
 
“They concentrated a lot, and I knew they were determined; and I find it nice to see them reap the fruits of their labor,” remarked Laverde, Kirtland’s coach. “And they’re so happy right now. This makes it. They will never forget this. This is something they will to carry them the rest of their lives. ” 
 
28 teams competed in the best of one match tournament held on May 6 in which almost 400 girls played the fourth spring season high school flag football northeast Ohio girls’ division. 
 
High shcools that participated in the tournaments are Madison, Magnificat, Mentor, Berkshire, Cleveland Central Catholic, Perry, Akron Early College, Lake Catholic, Warrensville Height, Willoughby South, Berea-Midpark, Cleveland Heights, Villa Angela-St. Joseph, Maple Heights, Bedford, Brush, Mayfield, Riverside, Lorain, Elyria catholic, Notre Dame Cathedral Latin, Hawken, Euclid, Shaker 
 
Every high school was given photo possibilities and communications with the Browns’ participant cornerback Greg Newsome II, security protector Justin Hardee, and lots of Browns’ head trainer Kevin Stefanski and Browns’ workers and crew. 
 
 “I think it empowers them with a feeling that we do actually care,” Newsome said. “I think people do cherish their talents and people do care that there are people who are aspiring to be football players or whatever they want to be So I strongly welcome the fact that we have a chance to support something like this. ” 
 
Newsome took part in the championship tournament in 2023 calendar year and was stunned by the sizes of the tournament as compared to the previous year. He observed the girls throughout the tournament and was included in the huddle of the Berea high school team as well as Willoughby South. He went to a couple of practices in that season for the Berea team to guide the athletes. 
 
“Some of those girls move,” Newsome said. What I came across is that I was coaching one of the teams, I just gave the girl the ball and she was gone and so I think it’s a great quality open, very competitive I heard one girl speaking to the other in a rude way, so they are into talking, tough say something in a rude manner, so they respond in the same manner, so it’s definitely fierce out there. 
 
The Browns have insisted on improving girls flag football as a way of equalizing the sports offered in the high school. 

They initiated it with Girls High School Flag Football in the current year 2021 together with Northeast Ohio Flag Football and started the first Girls High School Flag Football division in Ohio. Their long term objective is to foster a way of making Girls High School Flag Football part of the varsity sports under the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA). 
 
Before that, Newsome considers there is still a necessity of having such occasions as the tournament for the athletes to continue to pursue their passion for the game and excel. 
 
They have demonstrated the importance of the cup, Newsome said, to let them win. “It is only beginning to sprout now,” with this remark, the interviewee was able to explain that the tremendous growth from last year to this year is already a very positive experience for the team which as far as she knows loves baseball a lot. The interviewee also mentioned that she was only able to go to few of the practice of the Berea team but she definitely observed that the team members was very happy just to have them around and 
 
This is because for instance for one particular junior at Kirtland, she has been witnessing the above transformation in the development of the sport. As a result, Kennedy Boyd observed when Kirtland in the year 2022 formed a girl’s flag football team and how much the girls enjoyed it in her eighth-grade year. She came to Kirtland’s team two years later when she was yet in her sophomore year. 
 
After her team celebrated their victory in the game day at the Cleveland Browns Stadium; she clicked a moment to assess then define the importance of the tournament and the game of flag football to her and her teammates. 
 
It was really special and Boyd said it. Well I mean, especially being a female in this generation, it is quite significant to all of us I think it’s everyone’s dream to be the star and special, but I think it means more to us being females and all the girls coming together, and everyone seeing that we are one.