Football for women’s science is considered to be the first section in Texas.
UT Arlington announced on Thursday that it will add this sport as a full squash program in 2027.
It makes MAVERICKS NCAA Division I to publicly announce that he will sponsor sport at the Varsity level. Others are Mount Saint -Marie, Alabama, Long Island and Mercyhurst.
UT Arlington is the Division I program in Texas that adds sport at the Varsity level, as well as the first member of the Western Athletic conference to do so. Another two schools in Texas – the third section Concordia and Naia Texas Wesleyan – also sponsors football for women at the Varsity level, while two other WAC programs in Grand Canyon and Cal Baptist have a club sport.
In a statement, UT Arlington said that Flag Football will play games at the Mobile Stadium, which is a place of 12,000 seats. Later this year, the program will employ a training staff and start signing the players.
For UT Arlington, the addition of the football team to women in women’s science is the first time in 40 years, as MAVERICKS will have a soccer team of any kind. Its men’s treatment team was dissolved in 1985. This is the first time that UT Arlington has added any sport since 2017, when MAVERICKS began to compete in the golf game.
Women’s football is widely considered as emerging sport and one of the fastest growth in university athletics. Last month, The third section was Atlantic East, the first NCAA League To play a full season of women’s football and install it with the conference championship.
Olympic sport will be in 2028 in Los Angeles, and NCAA recommended adding to its women’s sports program.
Currently, according to NCAA, about 65 schools have a Varsity or Club level, but in order to consider the championship case, at least 40 NCAA program will need to care for football for women as a squash sport within 10 years. These teams will also have to meet the minimum games and share players.
Earlier this week, the Radford program – the first section program in Virginia in the Grand South – competes She announced that she is adding Football for women as a club sport this fall “with plans to develop it to become a sport of colleges.”
To date, there is no school at Power 4 level that adds sport at the Varsity level, but the NEBRASKA sports director Troy Danin recently said Women’s football is “something that we should all closely monitor.”
