Colts launch inaugural Indiana girls flag football all-star game

The Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Preps and the Indiana Football Coaches Association will stage the inaugural All-Indiana Girls Flag Football All-Star Game on July 26 in Westfield, giving the state’s top girls players a spot on NFL FLAG Championships week at Grand Park Sports Campus. The game will run alongside one of the sport’s biggest national stages, with the championship games set for that same Sunday.

The setting matters as much as the event itself. The 2026 NFL FLAG Championships presented by Toyota will run July 23-26 at the Droplight Grand Park Sports Campus, a 400-plus-acre complex with more than 30 multi-purpose fields. RCX Sports operates the championships, and the Colts are using that traffic of families, coaches and media to put Indiana’s best girls flag athletes in front of a much larger audience than a standalone all-star game would ever draw.

The Colts have spent the last year turning girls flag into a statewide climb, not a one-off novelty. Their Road to 100 initiative is aimed at establishing girls high school flag football as a fully sanctioned Indiana High School Athletic Association sport, and the participation numbers have kept rising. The Colts said 78 teams competed across Indiana in fall 2025, then listed 83 schools in a July 2, 2026 update, 88 schools on July 9 and 93 schools on July 16.

That growth started from a relatively new base. Colts coverage said fall 2025 was the first season girls flag was recognized as an emerging sport in Indiana, the first step toward IHSAA sanctioning. The organization also hosted the 2025 Indiana State Finals at Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield on Oct. 18, describing it as the first state finals for girls flag in Indiana. The Colts and the Jim Irsay Family have also announced a $1 million investment to support the development of girls high school flag football, a move that pushed the sport beyond pilot status and into real infrastructure.

That is why the all-star game carries more weight than a trophy exhibition. It gives the state’s top players a formal end-of-summer stage, ties them to the national championship event in Westfield and adds another public marker that Indiana girls flag football is building toward something permanent.