International Woman's Flag Football Association

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International Women's Flag Football Association

"Women should run their own sport"
Abbreviation	IWFFA
Founded	1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Type	Sports federation
Legal status	Governing body of Female Flag Football
Purpose	Sport governance
Region served	Worldwide
Website	IWFFA

The International Women's Flag Football Association (IWFFA) is the umbrella organization for female flag football around the world. The organization prides itself on being owned and operated by women whose motto is, "women should run their own sport".

IWFFA offers girls and women's flag football tournaments in North America, Scandinavia, Central America, Asia and Caribbean Regions. Their outreach program offers flag football clinics and training for players, coaches, and officials to any group wanting to develop female flag football in their area. Their promotional tours have been highly rated by players, teams and leagues for good quality flag football training. Since 1997, the IWFFA has introduced the sport of flag football in countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, El Salvador, Guatemala and Afghanistan.

Though flag football is a sport and competition is crucial, less importance is stressed on winning, and more stress is placed on camaraderie, unity and to "Experience the Excitement" in order to invite all females regardless of the skill level to participate in competitions so that they can learn skills from playing the sport, then to transfer to other areas of their lives in order to better compete with their male counterparts to have female influence in world affairs and one day peace.

Other goals are to professionalize women's flag football and to promote female flag football through tournaments, trainings and promotional tours held annually throughout the world. IWFFA ranks teams nationally (USA) and internationally. The IWFFA recognizes athletic achievements of female flag football players. The IWFFA publishes and uploads videos to the video sharing site, YouTube, to help illustrate the athleticism flag football entails. IWFFA Videos highlight some of the best female flag football action.

The IWFFA honors any woman or man, each year, who has done so much for the sport by presenting the: Porter Wilson Award. The World Challenge Game is a special competition between USA All Stars vs International All Stars played in Key West, Florida, USA following the International Women & Girls Flag Football Championship called the Kelly McGillis Classic.

The IWFFA has won numerous awards such as the Dick Butkas Award for their website, 1996 National Sports Emmy Award for "Football America" TNT/NFL Films chosen outstanding edited sports special (Kelly McGillis Classic).

All females are encouraged to become members of the IWFFA organization. The IWFFA sanctions regions, leagues, and teams and offers great support to individual player members. The IWFFA produces a monthly newsletter and Forward Pass Magazine which is a bi-annual girls and women's flag football magazine. On the Air with the IWFFA is a monthly radio podcast which features interviews of players, coaches and celebrities.

The creation of the game of Flag Football can be attributed to Porter Wilson, who was the man who invented flag a tag belts & flags used as equipment to play the sport.^[1]