Texas Sports Academy launches girls flag football school in Frisco

Frisco is set to become the base of Texas Sports Academy’s girls flag football school, a Fall 2026 launch that pairs two hours of academics each morning with more than three hours of training, leadership development and life-skills work in the afternoon. The academy says the program will be the nation’s first girls-only flag football school, and it will open at Elite Performance Training with about 20 girls in grades 6-12 in its first year.

The timing is no accident. On June 10, the University Interscholastic League took another step toward sanctioning girls flag football in Texas high schools, a move shaped by sustained advocacy from the Dallas Cowboys, the Houston Texans and district leaders across the state. UIL staff were also asked in June to conduct a superintendent survey as part of the proposal process, another sign that the sport is moving from pilot status toward broader acceptance.

Texas Sports Academy is pitching the Frisco school as more than an athletic program. Backers say it is designed to give girls a direct pipeline from youth participation to college recruiting and leadership development, in a sport that has historically offered far fewer structured pathways than boys football. The academy says students will be able to “learn twice as fast” in the morning academic block before shifting into specialized afternoon football work aimed at producing D1-bound athletes.

Two names on the advisory side underscore how seriously the school is treating that mission. Anquan Boldin, the former NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl champion, is listed as a founding advisor, along with Odessa Jenkins, founder and CEO of the Women’s National Football Conference. Their involvement signals that the school wants both national credibility and a clear line to women’s football at the highest levels.

The launch also lands as girls flag football gains real traction across Texas. The Dallas Cowboys launched a Texas high school girls flag football league in spring 2025 with 86 participating high schools, giving the sport a statewide footprint long before UIL official sanctioning arrives. UIL had not yet sanctioned girls flag football in 2025 and was still studying the proposal, but participation numbers, geographic growth and long-term sustainability have become central to the debate.

For Frisco and the wider Collin County sports corridor, the academy places the city at the center of an emerging ecosystem. If the sport clears the UIL hurdle, the school will already have a specialized model in place. If it does not, Texas Sports Academy is betting that the demand is strong enough to build its own pathway first.