LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A recent Coronado High School graduate has made the United States National Women’s Flag Football team.
Maci Joncich will represent her country at the Flag Football World Championships in Finland this summer.
“I was just overjoyed with happiness and I immediately started reflecting back on how long this has taken me to do and the journey I’ve been through,” Joncich said.
Joncich is the youngest member of the national team. She’s been playing flag football since she was six years old, when she started playing with her older brothers in a league in Henderson. She began playing a national schedule for the APEX Predators which is where she was scouted by the national team. She’s watched the sport grow and wants to help grow it more.
“I started out as the only girl in this league with hundreds of boys and now you see in these leagues, they have girls’ divisions,” Joncich said. “The exponential growth of flag has lit a fire underneath me and wants to make me push harder and work harder and I think it’s doing the same for a lot of people.”
Flag Football will become an Olympic sport beginning in 2028 with the games in Los Angeles and Joncich has her eye on being a part of it.
“That’s the big goal for sure,” Joncich said. “I have to re-make this U.S. National Team every year so I’m going to work as hard as I possibly can to make that 2028 team.”
In the meantime, she will begin attending the University of Florida in the fall, majoring in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology.
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