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Ballhawk from Surprise changes flag football game plans

Paradise Honors senior Berlyn Hoyt was third in Arizona last year with 19 interceptions as a middle linebacker. Quincy University in Illinois has offered her.

Paradise Honors senior Berlyn Hoyt was third in Arizona last year with 19 interceptions as a middle linebacker. Quincy University in Illinois has offered her.

(Courtesy Paradise Honors Flag Football)

Paradise Honors senior linebacker/wide receiver Berlyn Hoyt catches a touchdown in a game earlier this year.

Paradise Honors senior linebacker/wide receiver Berlyn Hoyt catches a touchdown in a game earlier this year.

(Courtesy Paradise Honors Flag Football)

Berlyn Hoyt did not play many sports growing up and was on the sidelines her freshman year at Paradise Honors.

Then a new way to play the family game arrived on campus. Hoyt played as a sophomore for the Panthers first flag football team.

“To be honest, I never played a sport before I started flag. I pretty much wanted to join because my whole family has been doing football and I obviously wasn’t going to do tackle,” Hoyt said.

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