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Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Sport
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Women Can Ball Too: Hendrix College Hosts Arkansas's first women's intercollegiate flag football tryout
Hendrix College will be the first in the state of Arkansas to offer flag football as a varsity sport. The college held its first tryout for current and prospective students on Thursday afternoon. The women's flag football program will compete at the club level in Spring 2026 before transitioning to varsity status in Spring 2027. Super Bowl champions produced by Arkansas colleges Women's flag football is expected to be considered as an Emerging Sport for Women by the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) in the coming year. Emerging Sports for Women are recognized by the NCAA but do not have sanctioned NCAA Championships. Hendrix is the third NCAA Division III institution in the southeast and southwestern United States to announce the addition of the sport after Huntingdon College (Ala.) and Concordia University Texas did so earlier this year. A look ahead at sporting events to watch in the Natural State in 2025 Currently, 24 institutions in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and seven schools in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) feature women's flag football. This year, the Atlantic East Conference became the first conference across all three divisions of the NCAA to sanction women's flag football. FOX 16 Sports was in Conway to cover the program's first tryout. We caught up with Hendrix President Karen Petersen, the new flag football coach Douglas Petersen, and several of the girls that participated. The group spoke about what it's like to make history starting a new sport in Arkansas, what the sport does for women's inclusion in sports and how the first day on the field went for the student athletes. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
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Hope student's artwork to be displayed at prestigious art museum in Arkansas
HOPE, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) – A primary school student in Hope will soon see her artwork displayed at a local college's art museum. Earlier this year, Brigit Arroyo, a student at William Jefferson Clinton Primary, submitted an artwork she called 'Sun and Moon' to an art contest for K-12 students. The contest was sponsored by the Windgate Museum of Art and focused on nature art inspired by Mississippi Artist Walter Anderson. Windgate Museum of Nature is located at Hendrix College. More than 600 entries poured in from across the state. Approximately 100 artworks were selected, and Arroyo's artwork was among them. The Windgate Museum of Art at Hendrix College will begin displaying the winning paintings on Feb. 1. Ann Waller is a teacher at Clinton Primary. She heard about the contest and wondered if there was something she could do to encourage students to enter. Last September, Waller launched an after-school program to help students enter the contest. She began staying after school on Mondays and Tuesdays to help encourage students to work on submissions for the Windgate Museum contest. 'I knew this was a pretty prestigious event and tricky to have a student get recognized,' said Waller. But Waller was still determined to help students enter. 'I sent in around 10 completed submissions right before Christmas break and waited,' she said. Fourth-grader Brigit Arroyo's artwork was chosen. The public can encourage young artists in Arkansas by attending the art show's opening reception at the Windgate Museum of Art on the Hendrix College Campus. The event takes place on Feb. 1 at 12:00 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
