The NFL hosted a Women in (American) Football event at Tottenham Stadium on Monday after honouring the Great Britain Women’s Flag Football team during a match-up between the Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns.
Current Great Britain Lions and back-to-back European champions Phoebe Schecter and Jochebed Frimpong were joined by the NFL’s International Flag Football Development Lead Afia Law and American sports marketing expert Jacquelyn Dahl for the panel discussion in Tottenham Stadium on Monday afternoon.
The panel shared their experiences in American football and fielded questions from journalists, commercial partners and other stakeholders just a day after Great Britain’s Women’s team were honoured at the two-minute warning of the Vikings Browns showdown in North London.
Monday’s event also coincided with the NFL Flag European Girls Championship in Tottenham, which saw ‘Great Britain’ bring home yet more silverware as they defeated Germany in the final. The GB team were made up of students from Ealing Fields High School, who had previously won both their Regional and National NFL Flag competition.
Several of the players representing in the Championship have also represented Great Britain in IFAF competition, most recently at the European Championships in Innsbruck, Austria, in addition to the London Fruit Bats in the UK’s Youth Flag Football League.
Speaking during the competition, Fruit Bats coach Jay Taylor expressed his pride and excitement about the growth of girl’s and women’s flag football in the UK.
“We are hugely proud of how well the GB Women’s team have done,” Taylor said.
“It’s fantastic for our players to see it and we’re lucky because a number of our players are in the GB youth pathway, and I think it’s incredibly exciting because the talent of young players coming through is on a different level.
“They are going to be the GB players of the future and they see the women doing it now as real inspirations.
“The explosion of NFL Flag in the UK has been incredible, and the ability for our girls to play at this level in incredible facilities like this means a huge amount, it’s really aspirational stuff.”
