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Flag football players in Glendale stay upbeat

Deer Valley, Mountain Ridge face tough schedules in first year

They came from other sports and other seasons, or sometimes with little to no sports background or football knowledge.

Now they are flag football players, setting the tone for the first year of the sport at Deer Valley and Mountain Ridge.

Mountain Ridge senior Emma Johnson heard about flag football during the summer. She is on the Mountain Lions track team and her fiends were trying out too, plus she remembered enjoying elementary school flag football.

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