Angram Bank Primary School was 1 of 25 schools around the city to be invited to participate in flag football tournament – a five-a-side, non-contact version of American football – and after winning the Sheffield competition at Concord Sports Centre, they will now go onto to represent the city in the National Finals.
The finals will be held on Wednesday June 29, at Loughborough University which is the current head quarters of the NFL UK, and the High Green school will be in competition with teams from all corners of the UK.
The winner of the competition will go onto represent the UK under the name of Team GB in Las Vegas along with 7 other countries – China, Japan, Italy, Germany US, Canada, and France.
Jack Bunting the head coach and year 4 teacher boils the team’s success down to ‘hard work’ and ‘determination’.
He said: “They’ve made it possible; they’ve been willing to turn up to every training session after school, some of the team have been going home watching the NFL and others have been doing extra training in their spare time.”
The school have also made waves across the pond, after naming the school team the ‘Angram Bank Bears’ American NFL outfit, Chicago Bears have been very supportive, sending over Jerseys and other sporting equipment to help them on their journey working towards the finals.
The Chicago Bears’ UK tour begins in July and sees them visit various schools, holding training sessions and other activities called ‘the Mini Monsters Tour.’
Travis Burnett
A pioneer in the flag football community, Travis helped co-found the Flag Football World Championship Tour, FlagSpin and USA Flag. Featuring 15+ years of content creation for the sport of flag football, creating and managing the largest flag football tournaments on the planet, coaching experience at the youth and adult level as well as an active player with National and World Championship level experience.
