Sioux Falls, SD (Kelo) – The Augustana University Women’s Football team is preparing to participate in its first game of the season.
Earlier this month, we explained to you how Augie joined forces with the Vikings du Minnesota and five other NCAA schools to launch a new collegial women’s football league.
We have caught up with the team to review the X and the O with regard to football.
This is one of their last training sessions before their first match.
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Many people say that flag football will transform female athletics from Augustana University.
“It’s just a really exciting period for Augustana’s women and women being part of it,” said head coach Kylie Coyne.
Kylie Coyne, who is the head coach, says that when Augie joined the League, she knew there would be a learning curve.
“By starting with my first training, my goal was just for everyone to learn and play each position, in this way, they could understand what they wanted to do, but I could also look at them to understand where their strengths are,” said Coyne.
The Vikings list includes 23 young women, who are hungry to play and lend to learning.
“So, we had people who were launching passes, we made everyone take it a bullet, everyone directed routes, everyone fired flags in defense, and by the second training, we started to identify where they were going to play,” said Coyne.
Haylee Erickson is a first -year student and can play just about any position on the field.
She says that when she heard that Agie joined a university flag football league, she did not hesitate to register.
“I have been around football all my life; my father played football, grew up looking at him all the time and I had some friends who played him where they came from and they are like Oh, we should try it, and I was as good,” let it, “said Erickson.
But not everyone was so confident.
“The first practice that I was really nervous on this subject, it might not be fine, and if I am bad or this or that, I had all these questions in my head, but it went very well, I had so much fun,” said the first year Boyi Lual.
In some respects, football is like * regular football, but there are distinct differences.
“The rules are quite simple, there is no contact as in tackle football,” said Coyne.
“But it could be, involuntarily … laughs but yes,” said Erickson.
To descend someone, you have to shoot one of the players from the player’s waste band.
And unlike regular football, there are only five players on each side of the ball.
“Normal melee line, we will have our center on the melee line,” said Coyne.
Coyne coach pulls it for us so that you can have a better idea of what he looks like with X and O.
“With a team five against five, we have a quarter, a center and three receivers,” said Coyne.
“We have an X receiver, a Y receiver and an AZ receiver; That’s all they have five out of five. ”
No other player on the line and no first stockings.
You mark or turn the ball over Downs.
“It is an evolving fast game, there is not much stop time as there is in tackle football,” said Coyne.
She says that the speed is everything, because the terrain is shorter and the game only lasts 30 minutes.
“If you are an X receiver and running, you will go up and maybe make a comeback,” said Coyne.
“Our center after having broken the ball, they become a receiver, so technically we have four receivers.”
As part of the partnership, the Minnesota Vikings contributed $ 140,000 to support the League.
Part of this money paid the new Augie uniforms.
Among the other participating schools, let us quote Concordia College Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus College, Bethel University, University of Northwestern, St. Paul and University of Wisconsin, Stout.
The whole match of Augigs will take place on the road this season, but that does not attack their morale.
They are looking forward to adapting and doing what football players do, scoring affected.
“As in normal football after getting a touchdown, they are starting to dance, it looks like something really fun to do, so I’m excited for this part, so if we are marking a lot of touch or gains a game, we will start dancing after a touchdown,” said Lual.
Next year, the Augie Flag football team will go to a seven league seven with a larger field.
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