Aysia Jones-Robinson earns U.S. Army All-American flag football selection

Aysia Jones-Robinson earned one of the sport’s sharpest national honors, landing a spot among just 20 girls selected for the U.S. Army All-American flag football division. The 16-year-old quarterback from Germantown, Maryland, has already turned a breakout run at Clarksburg High School into a profile that now stretches beyond her county and into the sport’s expanding elite pipeline.

Jones-Robinson’s rise has been built on more than one tournament run. At Clarksburg, she helped guide the program through multiple shutouts and two state championships, including Maryland’s inaugural girls flag football title game on Nov. 8, 2024, when the Coyotes beat Boonsboro 20-12 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Clarksburg later repeated as state champion with a 19-0 win over Whitman, a shutout that underscored how quickly the program has moved from first-season novelty to a team with championship expectations.

Her development has also been shaped away from the school sideline. Jones-Robinson plays travel flag for Matrix Sports Academy, where coach Isaac Williams has helped position her as a national-level quarterback. That outside track matters in girls flag football, where visibility, competition and coaching connections often determine who gets seen by college programs, national-team evaluators and showcase organizers.

The U.S. Army selection gives Jones-Robinson another step up the ladder as the sport pushes toward its Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The International Olympic Committee approved flag football for the Olympic programme at its 141st Session in Mumbai, India, and LA28 will stage six-team men’s and women’s tournaments at Exposition Park Stadium. USA Football, which runs the U.S. Men’s, Women’s, Boys’ and Girls’ National Teams, also says top girls players can pursue NAIA scholarship opportunities.

The growth numbers show why a player like Jones-Robinson is arriving at the right moment. USA Football said more than 68,800 girls played high school flag football in 2024, a 60% jump from the year before, while participation among girls ages 6 to 12 rose 283% from 2015 through 2024. Montgomery County Public Schools opened its inaugural girls flag football season on Sept. 4, 2024, with all 25 MCPS high schools fielding teams, another sign that the local pipeline now feeds a national one. Jones-Robinson is already inside it.