Recently, Elena was playing football at school during recess when a boy in her class came up to her and told her that, because she is a girl, she can't play the sport. Although this wasn’t the ...

Yet one day last week one of the boys at school sneered: “You can’t play football. Girls can’t play football. Do you ever see girls that play football?” Actually, Elena never has.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — An 8-year-old girl from Minnesota is getting backup from women’s pro football players in Kansas City after someone told her that “girls can’t play football.” ...

Utah athlete — who appeared in Super Bowl commercial with NFL greats and was a YouTube sensation — is back playing football ...

Ahead of today's national girls' finals, we spoke to those who took part in qualifying to find out what the competition means to them ...

Elena Easley, 8, fell in love with football watching Taylor Swift cheer on Travis Kelce Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.