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Penn College joined the United East Conference in announcing the anticipated addition of women’s flag football as an intercollegiate and conference-sponsored sport beginning in 2025-26.The United East becomes the second Division III conference to announce its sponsorship of women’s flag football (Atlantic East) and the third among all divisions in the NCAA (Conference Carolinas).

In addition to Penn College, the league will have at least four institutions participating at the club level in the spring of 2025 with Gallaudet, Keystone College, Lancaster Bible College and Rosemont College.

“We’re excited to add another opportunity for women to participate in college athletics,” Penn College director of athletics Scott Kennell said. “The combination of the growth of flag football at the high school level, and the anticipated approval of women’s flag football as an NCAA emerging sport, encouraged us to make this decision.”

The United East will assist in coordinating club-level competition with its five new programs in spring 2025. Once elevated to the varsity level, women’s flag football will become the 21st sport sponsored by the United East, and the 16th intercollegiate sport at Penn College, with the first projected conference championship to be hosted in spring 2026.

“There is undoubted momentum and growth in women’s flag football and we are extremely excited to begin sponsoring this sport in the United East,” shared United East commissioner Stephanie Dutton. “The interest and engagement in women’s flag football is exploding in our conference’s geographic footprint and we are eager to begin offering young women the opportunity to compete at the collegiate level.”

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