Concordia Texas hires Chris Chacon to lead women’s flag football program

Concordia University Texas hired Chris Chacon in June to lead its women’s flag football program, giving the school a builder with deep ties to the youth pipeline that is feeding the sport’s rapid rise in Texas. The move lands at a pivotal moment for Concordia, which first announced women’s flag football on Aug. 22, 2024, and said it was the first university in Texas to offer the sport at the collegiate level.

By June 2026, Concordia was already in its inaugural season, turning that early announcement into a working college program. The hire gives the school a coach tasked with more than game planning. Chacon is being asked to help define the roster, recruiting footprint and identity of a program that is still taking shape while other schools watch how Texas’ first wave of women’s college flag football develops.

Chacon arrived with a résumé built inside the state’s growing flag ecosystem. Concordia described him as a respected Texas coach, league operator and flag football leader. He was serving as associate head coach for girls flag football at Lehman High School, where he helped guide the team to an 8-3 record and a league championship appearance in the inaugural Dallas Cowboys Girls High School Flag Football League. He also worked as Program Director for Neighborhood Sports/NFL Flag in Austin and led the NS Elite Vipers, giving him experience in both grassroots development and competitive travel play.

That background matters for Concordia because Texas has moved quickly from isolated pilots to a more defined feeder system. The Dallas Cowboys announced regional high school girls flag football leagues across the state on March 1, 2025, with competitive play beginning that spring. One district report later said nearly 100 high school teams participated in the Spring 2025 season. In El Paso, the NFL, Texans and Cowboys partnered to launch girls flag football there as well, with 38 teams competing in the inaugural league.

Concordia’s hire places the school inside that wider race to establish serious collegiate flag football programs in Texas. With high school leagues expanding in Dallas, Austin and El Paso, the college level now has a chance to turn an emerging girls’ sport into a durable women’s pathway. Chacon’s job is to make sure Concordia Texas is first not just in name, but in how well it builds.