{"id":194667,"date":"2025-07-09T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=194667"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:48:47","slug":"new-varsity-sport-coming-to-unoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/07\/09\/new-varsity-sport-coming-to-unoh\/","title":{"rendered":"New varsity sport coming to UNOH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; The University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) has announced the addition of women\u2019s flag football as its newest varsity sport to its Lima campus, set to begin competitive play in spring, 2027. The new program comes as part of the university\u2019s ongoing commitment to expanding athletic opportunities for female athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nationwide search will begin immediately to hire the program\u2019s inaugural head coach. The coach will begin recruiting this fall, laying the foundation for the program\u2019s launch in the 2026-2027 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UNOH-Racers-logo-7-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194668\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The sport continues to gain momentum nationwide. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) recently designated women\u2019s flag football as an emerging sport, encouraging member institutions to establish programs. Over the past three years, more than 220 colleges and universities have added women\u2019s flag football to their athletics offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring Women\u2019s Flag Football to UNOH,\u201d said Jen Dervarics, UNOH Athletic Director. \u201cThis is a fast-paced, growing sport that offers new opportunities for female athletes to excel on the field and in the classroom. We look forward to building a competitive and inspiring program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNOH will compete in the WHAC alongside Lourdes University and Defiance College, who will also begin women\u2019s flag football in spring of 2027. Ohio is quickly becoming a hotbed for the sport with current collegiate programs at Franciscan University of Steubenville (NCAA Division III), Heidelberg University (NCAA Division III), Hocking College (NJCAA), and Ursuline College (NCAA Division II).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNOH will offer athletic scholarships and compete at the highest level within the NAIA, with a full competitive schedule planned for spring, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information LIMA &#8212; The University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) has announced the addition of women\u2019s flag football as its newest varsity sport to its Lima campus, set to begin competitive play in spring, 2027. The new program comes as part of the university\u2019s ongoing commitment to expanding athletic opportunities for female athletes. A nationwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 00:06:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194669,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194667\/revisions\/194669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}