The fastest-growing high school sport in Colorado is girls flag football.

Thank the Broncos for that.

When the 2025 flag football season kicked off for the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) in mid-August, 74 teams were ready to compete. Just a few years prior, that number was zero, because a flag football program in the state did not exist for girls.

The Broncos sought to change that.

“This started in conversations years ago,” Allie Engelken, vice president of community impact and executive director of the Denver Broncos Foundation, told The Denver Gazette. “Myself and our senior director of youth and high school football, Bobby Maestas, met with the Denver Broncos Foundation board of directors and really saw an opportunity to support the growth of girls athletics and

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