Photos from the first women’s college flag football game in Illinois between Benedictine and Rockford on March 8, 2025, at the Walter Payton Center in Lake Forest.

The 11-player Benedictine University flag football team sat in a stretching circle just outside the walled turf field at ...

Rockford University’s Women’s Flag Football team is the first competitive team in Illinois, and will play 16 games this spring, with their first home games on March 21-22 at Sportscore ...

Earlier this school year, hundreds of Rockford Public School students didn’t receive their mandated occupational therapy.

Rockford is the first to start a women's flag football team from the state of Illinois and is one of the first in the entire NCAA to bring this new — but fast-growing — sport to the college level.

ROCKFORD, Ill (WREX ... We were the first college/university at any level to start a women’s flag football program in Illinois, and now we are making history again when we will be playing ...

Here are some of their responses. Education: East High School, 1987; Northern Illinois University, Bachelor of Arts in English,1993; Rockford College, Master of Arts Degree, secondary education ...

Women's flag football teams from Rockford and Benedictine University faced off on International Women's Day in the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall, marking the first collegiate matchup of its kind ...