On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, we look back at the 2019 Girls High School Flag Football Championship held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The Atlanta Falcons' strong commitment to growing the game of football has only intensified over the past several years. In an announcement made at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Wednesday, just prior to the Girls Flag Football Summit and championship games, Georgia will become the fourth state to make girls flag football an officially sanctioned high school sport in the state of Georgia.

Georgia will become the fourth state to make girls flag football an officially sanctioned high school sport , the Falcons announced Wednesday

What started out as a simple idea from Gwinnett County has now turned into an officially sanctioned sport for the entire state of Georgia

The Falcons' initiative has achieved what it set out to accomplish two years ago and now girls in all of Georgia's 159 counties can compete in flag football

Two-year journey culminates with announcement that Georgia is the fourth state in the country to sanction girls high school flag football as a sport

For the first time ever, the girls of Archer High School's flag football team took the field in front of hundreds of fans at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Opportunity viewed as a once-in-a-lifetime experience for one Heritage High School player