TALLAHASSEE — Simply Marvelous, the women’s flag football team at Florida A&M University, recently won two national championships, for a total of six in four years.
The team’s most recent title game, the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association National Campus Championship Series National Championship will air at 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, on CBS Sports.
Simply Marvelous is scheduled to play in ESPN’s Weekend Women’s Flag Football Tournament in Orlando March 4-6 at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex.
The team, which has a season record 11-0, first defeated Stephen F. Austin 35-6 in the NCCS Regional Flag Football Championship in December at the University of Southern Mississippi before traveling to Texas A&M University for the NIRSA NCCS National Championship.
They dominated their opponents in the NIRSA NCCS National Championship, going 5-0 and defeated Texas State University 26-6 in the final game.
FAMU freshman Erika Collins was named the Most Valuable Player. Collins and teammates Kimbryana Lewis and Aisa Evans were chosen for the All-Tournament Team.
Just days before being named NIRSA NCCS National Champions, Simply Marvelous were the American Collegiate Intramural Sports (ACIS) winners during the 31st annual National Flag Football Tournament in New Orleans, where they trounced more than 40 teams.
ACIS Flag Football is a series of campus flag football regional and national championship tournaments that provide college student-athletes with an opportunity to compete in high quality, nationally promoted intramural and extramural events.
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