Shore Conference girls flag football stars earn All-Shore honors

Barnegat's Camila Chamorro and Middletown South's Cam Czwakiel headlined the 2026 Coaches' All-Shore girls flag football list as the Shore Conference played its sixth season with 30 programs, eight more than a year earlier. Chamorro, the Asbury Park Press player of the year, powered Barnegat's first-year team to a 12-0 run and the Shore Conference Tournament title with 3,203 passing yards, 43 touchdown passes, 586 rushing yards and 29 flag pulls.

Czwakiel, a two-time first-team All-Shore pick, matched that level of production with 2,095 passing yards, 26 touchdown throws, 1,147 rushing yards and nine more scores while carrying Middletown South into the championship game. Rumson-Fair Haven won the first three Shore Conference titles, beating Pinelands 18-12 in 2025 behind Izzy Capra, Devon Libro and Sydney Rettino, and Ella Mason earlier led Rumson to the 2024 crown with five touchdown passes and an extra-point throw.

NJSIAA members voted on May 4, 2026 to sanction girls flag football as a varsity sport beginning in the 2026-27 school year, after the game had been a provisional offering since 2022-23. Participation rose from 83 teams and more than 2,000 athletes in 2022-23 to more than 140 member schools and about 4,200 girls in 2024-25, and the association is still building tournament regulations for the new championship structure.

The NFHS moved to write official playing rules for the 2025-26 season. The New York Jets expected nearly 160 New Jersey high schools to field teams the next season after more than 75 teams took part in the 2025 Girls High School Flag Football Media Day at MetLife Stadium.