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The New Zealand American Football Federation is encouraging wahine to give gridiron a go.
The federation is holding its first ever women’s football camp in Auckland this month.
Programme coordinator Shernice Henry hopes the camp at Mountford Park in Manurewa on November 20 will introduce a few more people to both the tackle and the flag or non-contact version of the game.
“It’s more a match fitness game. You will see when you watch the NFL there are a lot of huddles. As long as you can explode out of a sprint or into a tackle and hold it for about 10 seconds we are going to give you at least a 20 or 30 second rest and that’s what’s attractive about our game for a lot of people who are striving to develop some of their own physical and health and wellness goals,” she says.
Shernice Henry says there are about 140 female American Football players in Aotearoa, with the Papatoetoe Wildcats being the defending champions of the Kiwbowl tackle football competition and the Metro Lionesses recently winning the national flag football title.
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