She'd grown up hearing her mom's stories of playing professional ... and his vision and the women who showed up to play. They wanted to play real football - real tackle football - and he wanted ...

Shavonna Rucker, a professional female tackle football player for The Oklahoma Rage, shares her love of football by coaching girls flag football. ...Forecast flooding changed from Minor to ...

Officials on Tuesday welcomed the newest Women’s National Football Conference franchise – the Jersey Shore Wave. The professional women’s tackle football team is set to play its inaugural ...

What are the greatest challenges for women in this field? Professional opportunity. We have been excluded and not taken seriously. There’s no opportunity for girls to play tackle football in ...

The possibility of young girls growing up to play professional tackle football is the vision Odessa Jenkins had in mind when she founded the Women's National Football Conference (WNFC).

But the women’s tackle football team has certainly been ... in an ESPN documentary and have three jerseys enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In her announcement, Goodwin thanked fans ...

The National Football League might not expand into Canada anytime soon, but another professional league south of the border that also deals in first downs and touchdowns is looking northward. And a ...

Now entering its sixth season, the WNFC is a semi-professional tackle football league. Players suit up in pads and helmets, and the women are here to win. They travel to play teams in their ...

She plays for the Kansas City Glory in the professional women’s tackle football league. “It made me really emotional because I started when I was six-years-old. I was always told that as well ...