Texas Sports Academy opens first girls flag football school in Frisco

Texas Sports Academy has put a bold marker in the middle of girls flag football’s fastest-growing stretch, announcing the nation’s first dedicated school for the sport and planting it inside Elite Performance Training in Frisco. The launch is built for girls in grades 6-12 and will begin with roughly 20 founding families, a deliberately small start that is meant to test whether a tightly managed pipeline can move players from development to recruitment.

The school’s daily structure is the clearest sign that this is being sold as more than a training center. Students will spend two focused hours on academics in the morning, then move into more than three hours of football work, leadership development and life-skills programming in the afternoon. Texas Sports Academy has framed that model as accelerated academics paired with afternoon sports excellence and life-skills development, a design that aims to give athletes enough classroom support to keep pace while still building the football habits needed for higher-level competition.

That pitch gains credibility from the names attached to it. Odessa Jenkins, the founder and CEO of the Women’s National Football Conference, is listed as a founding advisor, bringing deep women’s-football experience and a track record that includes co-founding the Texas Elite Spartans and the WNFC. Anquan Boldin, the former NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl champion, is also a founding advisor; he founded Players Coalition in 2017. On the field, Loryn Goodwin, a member of the U.S. women’s flag football national-team talent pool, will lead the inaugural program as head coach, linking the school directly to the elite side of the sport.

That mix of education, coaching pedigree and athlete support is why the Frisco launch reads like a test case for whether girls flag football can be built the way established sports programs are built: with curriculum, competition and a college path. The school says it is designed to prepare athletes not just for games, but for college recruitment and the NIL-era realities that now shape high school sports. If that promise holds, the model could become a template for other markets.

The timing is striking. Flag football will make its Olympic debut at the Los Angeles 2028 Games, and 23 states now sanction girls high school flag football. Texas has not yet joined that list through the University Interscholastic League, but the UIL has begun surveying superintendents and developing an implementation plan. With Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans-backed programs already spreading the game across Texas high schools, Texas Sports Academy is stepping into a moment when demand is rising faster than the official structure around it. Whether Frisco becomes the blueprint or just the brand, the sport’s next stage is already taking shape.