We are looking forward to another great season of Parkwood NFL Flag Football this fall! All registrations will be done online this year. If you have not created an account, you can do that before registration opens. This will save you some time (and stress if it doesn't go smoothly for you!) once registration opens. We will have a maximum total number of players of just over 500 this year.
Again for 2023, the 6-8 age group will play their games on SUNDAY AFTERNOONS. Time is TBD but will likely be in the 1-3pm range. We will not play at the same time as the Parkwood intramural soccer games, and we will make every attempt to schedule around the Parkwood travel soccer teams' games. If you play soccer for another organization, you should not count on us being able to schedule flag football around your team's travel schedule. Ages 9-14 will still play on Friday nights, with games starting at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, and 9pm. We will try to get the 9-11 age games done before 9pm (this is referee-dependent, but we were able to keep the 9-11s in the early slots last year). The 12-14 age group should expect to have start times throughout the whole 6-9pm range.
When you register your child, you will be asked if you would like to volunteer at the club. We have many volunteer opportunities, including setting up and breaking down fields, kitchen duty, staffing the mouthpiece/candy/drinks trailer, trash cleanup, field painting, and other duties. As an all-volunteer organization, we need your help! Service opportunities for flag football are scheduled either immediately before or immediately after your child's game time. Each team has 2-3 volunteer duty nights throughout the season. As always, we have Head Coach and Assistant Coach volunteer opportunities as well. All coaches WILL BE REQUIRED TO TURN IN CLEARANCES before their team will receive its jerseys. Note that we define a coach as: any parent volunteer who is around the children on the sidelines. If your team has 5 parents who are "helping" coach, they ALL need clearances. If you are thinking about coaching, go ahead and get your clearances done today. It's free for volunteers! Go to the 'volunteer central' page for all links to required clearances.
INFO: Immediately after registering your player, please check your email and look for a confirmation email stating that you have signed up a player for flag football. In 2019 and 2021, we had several parents sign up for volunteer work but did not complete their child's flag football registration correctly. If you create a new account, you will receive an account creation confirmation email. If you sign up for volunteer work, you will receive a volunteer confirmation email. Neither of these two email confirms that you have completed a player's registration. If you have trouble with account creation or registration, please IMMEDIATELY email the webmaster ([email protected]). We cannot help you once an age division closes! There will be "wait lists" used for all age groups that reach the maximum number of players before August 1st.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected] and we will do our best to help you out. Don't wait until July 31st to reach out! By then, it will be too late!
Tentative schedule:
Registration July 5-31, or earlier if divisions fill up before that date
August 1-7: teams are created
August 8-15: coaches' meetings & roster distribution
Aug 22-26: Jersey sizing. Al jerseys that need to be exchanged for size will incur a $25 fee from the NFL so we highly recommend coming to jersey sizing or making arrangements to have your child sized some other time before Aug 26th.
Aug 27: Jerseys will be ordered. After this date, refunds are reduced by $25
Regular season: 7 weeks. Each team will have one game per week.
6-8s: Sep 10-Oct 22
9-11s, 12-14s: Sep 8-Oct 20
Oct 27/29: reserved for makeup games if any week is rained out (note that we can only make up the first week of rained out games. If more than one week is rained out, the games will be canceled). If there are no rain outs, then the playoffs will begin this week.
ALL TEAMS MAKE THE PLAYOFFS; Note that the 6-8s move to Friday night games for the semifinals and championships
Nov 3/5: 1st round of playoffs; semifinals if no rainouts
Nov 10: semifinals of playoffs; championships if no rainouts
Nov 17: Championships **note that championships MUST be completed before Thanksgiving due to our annual soccer tournament
REFUND POLICY if child decides not to play
Before Aug 27th
Credit $110
Reimbursement $105 ($110 - $5 processing charges)
After Aug 27
Credit $80
Reimbursement $75 ($80 - $5 processing charges)
After 1st game
No reimbursement or credit
REFUNDS DUE TO INJURY are evaluated on a case by case basis.