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Kasandra Rodriguez ran for a touchdown in Harrison’s April 3 flag football game against Ridgefield.
HARRISON − Football in Harrison is alive and well.
It’s just that now, the Blue Tide logo wears a white belt with two flags around its waist. The quarterback throws the ball flat-footed, if she throws it at all. Most importantly, Harrison wins almost all the time.
The small Hudson County school − a New Jersey soccer powerhouse forever − dropped the boys football program after the 2023 season for multiple reasons, mainly a lack of willing players, but the girls flag football program has filled the void. The Blue Tide has become a powerhouse, reaching the state semifinals last year.
For the Harrison players, flag football has become something they grew to love in a short period of time.
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For the Harrison coaches, like so many others of flag programs, it’s been refreshing, a chance to teach football to a whole new audience.
“To those that think that Harrison might not have football anymore, I would tell them we do, and they should come here and watch them,” Harrison flag football coach Dan Nankivell said. “Once they see it once, I think they’ll believe that this is something special.”
Building the girls flag football program
Nankivell, “Nank” to everyone, would know. He played football for the Blue Tide and coached in the boys program before it folded.
“It’s devastating for me as an alum,” Nankivell said. “I coached in 2017 and we went to the playoffs that year. To watch it go from there to a non-existent program is heartbreaking.”
When then-athletic director Kim Huaranga asked Nankivell about coaching the flag football program at Harrison, she assumed he would say no, but something…
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