In all, 15 teams competed in the day-long event, making for a successful completion of a third season of the girls flag football league.

The league crowned its 2024 champions, as Moon Area defeated North Allegheny in the finals, 32-6.

“Today was a great day,” said Moon Area Head Coach Jason Russell. “We had a long season. The girls put in a lot of work. For them to go back-to-back, it was a great accomplishment. We have a lot of great players on our team who took that task, wore that crown with pride. And I always think when you have a Serayah Leech on your team, you always have a chance.”

“It’s never easy. It was a great season from all the girls,” said Serayah Leech, a senior at Moon and team captain. “We lost a lot of seniors last year, so we knew it was going to be a rough season. All these girls locked in, preseaosn, during the season, playoffs, every single game they worked their butts off. All the mistakes we did in the regular season we knew not to make them in the playoffs because we knew that was going to come back and bite us in the butt. We did our thing, so I’m really proud.”

Steelers alumni Troy Polamalu and Will Allen were on hand for the finals, with Polamalu presenting the trophy to the winners.

“We had a great time here today at Carnegie Mellon with our girls flag football teams, as well as all of those in attendance cheering them on,” said Dan Rooney, the Steelers Director of Business Development. “Girls flag football has seen tremendous growth not only locally but also nationally over the past few years and days