Palos Verdes Youth Football and Cheer Grows Girls’ Flag Program with Help of USA Football Grant

Palos Verdes Youth Football and Cheer (PVYFC) in Calif. has existed for more than 50 years, but the organization is still finding new ways expand and offer more opportunities for athletes to play America’s favorite sport. Palos Verdes launched a girls-only flag football program in 2023 and is preparing for significant growth in 2024 thanks, in part, to a Girls Flag Grant from USA Football. Palos Verdes Youth Football and Cheer offers a multitude of ways for young athletes to engage in athletics. The organization has tackle football and cheerleading programs and also offers co-ed flag football for athletes in first through eighth grade. The girls’ flag football program runs from third through eighth grade before feeding into Palos Verdes Peninsula High School and Palos Verdes High School. “It’s a great program. It’s been one of the joys of my life to start the flag league and see it through to this point,” said Holly Woesner, who led the development of the PVYFC flag football program as the Athletic Director of Flag Football from 2018 until she became the organization’s President in the fall of 2023.