Boyce Park teams earn double berth to NFL FLAG Championships

The Boyce Park Jets 8U and Boyce Park Steelers 10U turned the same Pittsburgh youth program into a two-bid qualifier, each winning a regional championship to reach the NFL FLAG Championships. The double berth gives Pittsburgh National League a national-stage presence that goes beyond one hot team and points to a system producing multiple winners at once.

The Jets’ path already had a national feel. Pittsburgh NFL League said the Boyce Park Jets 8U advanced after winning a New York Jets NFL FLAG Regional Tournament on Oct. 26, 2025, in Clifton, New Jersey, a result that sent them on to the championship field in Westfield. The Steelers followed with their own regional title, and the Boyce Park Steelers 10U punched its ticket alongside the Jets, giving the same program two qualifiers in the same season.

Coaching continuity sits at the center of it. The Jets are coached by Rashad Colvin and AJ Collins, while the Steelers are led by Larry Fielder and Maurice Williams. Pittsburgh NFL League’s coaching page identifies Colvin as a longtime coach across multiple teams and Collins as a Hall of Famer, the kind of depth that matters in youth flag football, where habits, spacing and decision-making are built long before the biggest bracket games arrive.

The teams now head to the 2026 NFL FLAG Championships Presented by Toyota, scheduled for July 23-26 at Droplight Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield, Indiana, with championship games set for Sunday, July 26. NFL FLAG says the event is in its third year and will feature more than 350 girls’ and boys’ teams at a 400-plus-acre complex with more than 30 multi-purpose fields. That scale explains why a double qualifier out of Pittsburgh matters: the road to Westfield runs through a national field that is vast, crowded and getting harder to crack.

NFL FLAG says the sport now has more than 20 million players across 100-plus countries and six continents, and that backdrop makes Boyce Park’s twin advance more than a local feel-good story. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania have put two teams on the bracket from the same program, at the same time, with the same national destination ahead. That is how a pipeline looks when it starts to become real.