Arizona's top high school girls flag football coaches ranked for 2026

1. Matt Stone, Hamilton High School

Stone sits at the top because Hamilton set the standard everyone else is chasing. He led the Huskies to back-to-back 6A championships in 2024 and 2025, and Hamilton’s rise traces back to the long push he made to grow girls flag football in Arizona, where the sport now runs inside a real statewide structure instead of a pilot project.

1. Brian Coger, Campo Verde High School

Campo Verde turned continuity into a calling card, and Coger is the reason. The Coyotes won the 5A title in 2025, giving the school its second championship and making it the first Arizona program to win multiple state crowns, after the inaugural 5A title in 2023.

1. Chris Horn, St. Mary’s High School

Horn’s St. Mary’s team showed how quickly a well-coached program can arrive. The Knights won the first 4A girls flag football state championship on Nov. 23, 2024, beating Prescott 10-7 at Chandler High School in a season that began with no prior flag game experience for the school’s players.

1. Ryan Hart, Prescott High School

Hart earns his place because Prescott made the 4A title game in its first season and looked organized doing it. AZPreps365 noted that Prescott and St. Mary’s both brought experienced coaches into that inaugural 4A championship, and Prescott’s own staff page lists Hart as head coach, a sign that the program has already stabilized around him.

1. Julian Madison, Red Mountain High School

Madison kept Red Mountain in the center of the 6A race all the way to the final week. The Mountain Lions finished 19-1 in 2025-26, beat Sandra Day O’Connor 12-7 in the state bracket and played Hamilton for the 6A championship, proof that the East Valley’s deepest bracket now produces title-caliber staffs, not just good rosters.

1. Matthew Reum, Xavier Prep

Reum’s Xavier team proved how dangerous a disciplined 6A program can be when its offense clicks. The Gators finished 9-3 in 2025-26, ranked ninth overall, and blasted Westwood 70-0 as Ana Matuz threw for 256 yards and 10 touchdowns in one of the most lopsided showcase wins in the state.

1. Robert Latona, Sandra Day O’Connor

Latona turned Sandra Day O’Connor into one of the steadier 6A teams in the West Valley. The Eagles went 10-3, finished fifth in their conference race, and stacked wins over Casteel, Xavier and Desert Ridge before the postseason, the profile of a staff that keeps finding answers against playoff-level competition.

1. Adam Robbs, Mountain View, Mesa

Robbs has Mountain View operating like a program with a clear identity and a real ceiling. The Toros went 13-5 in 2025-26, finished 11th overall, beat Mesa 39-0, and added a 31-7 state-tournament win over Desert Vista before falling to Hamilton, which is exactly the kind of postseason line that marks a program builder.

1. Corey Enman, Casteel

Enman’s Casteel job matters because the Colts are playing in one of the toughest intersections in Arizona flag football. The school’s athletics page now lists him as the flag coach, and the team’s 2025 results included a 13-3 win over Perry plus tight games against Chandler and Hamilton, the kind of schedule that forces a staff to teach every detail correctly.

1. Josh Ahlvin, Liberty

Ahlvin rounds out the list because Liberty shows how far the sport still has to grow, even as it surges. In the Lions’ first AIA season, he was building a foundation through a young roster, limited practice space and evolving rules, while the AIA already had flag football spread across four conferences and 159 teams and had set practice to begin Monday, Aug. 10, 2026; USA Football’s rules materials also frame the game as a fast, non-contact sport moving toward the 2028 Olympic debut and a national officiating pathway.