Eureka and Wittenberg Adding Women's Flag Football

Eureka College (IL) and Wittenberg University (OH) will add women's flag football programs over the next two years. Wittenberg plans to add a team for the 2025-26 academic year and has named Chris Johnson as head coach. Eureka will add a varsity team beginning with the 2026-27 academic year and has already named Cedric Minniefield as head coach.

Eureka is the third school from the NCAA Division III St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) to add the sport. Blackburn (IL) and Westminster (MO) announced the addition of flag football earlier this year. All three schools are slated to begin competing in the 2026-27 academic year. Eureka's addition puts Illinois at 10 schools playing flag football by the start of the 2027 spring season.

Wittenberg is the first school from the NCAA Division III North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) to add a club or varsity flag football team. The Tigers are located in Springfield, Ohio, and are the 8th school in the state to announce a program. Ohio also sanctioned flag football as a championship sport in July. Wittenberg will join more than 225 programs competing in the 2025-26 academic year, including more than 100 new teams.

The list of schools adding flag football for the 2026-27 academic year is approaching three dozen. That number will undoubtedly continue to climb. Confirmed new teams for the 2027 spring season include:

The six American Southwest Conference schools, Albright (PA), Blackburn (IL), Cal Poly (CA) Camden (NJ), Defiance (OH), Eureka (IL) Goldey-Beacom (DE), Guilford (NC), Jackson State Community College (TN), Lourdes (OH), Meredith (NC), Minnesota North-Vermilion (MN), Northwestern Ohio (OH), Oklahoma Wesleyan (OK), RCSJ-Cumberland (NJ), Ripon (WI), Roxbury CC (MA) Saint Mary (NE), Saginaw Valley State (MI), UT Arlington (TX), and Westminster (MO).