“Whenever she touches the ball, there is a very real possibility it ends up in the endzone. “Mya is a game changer in every sense of the word,” said Nankivell. De Jesus has made an instant impact with 617 yards and 14 touchdowns on offense and five interceptions on defense.
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I’ve had a hard time coaching boys who played their entire life just to be able to do some of the stuff that she’s learning how to do – reading defenses, looking off safeties, she has full audible ability.”Īt running back is freshman Mya De Jesus, who also started in soccer and basketball. She’s throwing the ball 40 yards down field and hitting receivers. “Really doing a great job and has come into her own,” Nankivell said. The sophomore has thrown for 511 yards and 11 touchdowns, ran for six more TDs and also has two interceptions on defense.
“Now that they’re able to come out here with an understanding of how this game operates, how practices operate and what the expectations are, it’s been a seamless year two.”Īt quarterback is Hailey Scocco, a standout on the softball field and a true game-changer on the football field with both her arm and legs. “Last year was the first year ever playing this game,” Nankivell said. Nankivell believes the newness of the sports has allowed the Harrison girls to compete on a more even playing field than in other sports, where other teams have stronger recreation programs for girls before getting to high school. Since flag football is not a NJSIAA sponsored sport, girls are allowed to play flag football as well as another spring sport at the same time. North Arlington started play this spring. Locally, Harrison, Lyndhurst and Nutley started flag football programs last season. Since its formation in 2021, the league has expanded from eight teams to now more than 100 in North and Central New Jersey, Long Island and New York City. This is the third season of the New York Jets’ High School Girls Flag Football League, which is done in conjunction with Nike and Gatorade. “I think our girls have started to believe in this program and believe in our identity and once those things start coming together, the rest is kind of easy.” “We have a lot of buy-in,” Nankivell said. After defeating Pompton Lakes on Friday, the second-year program is now 9-0 and on top of the NJIC standings heading into the final week of the regular season.
Since then, the Blue Tide haven’t just been winning, they’ve been dominant. We’re going to be a winning program and we’re going to continue to be that. “Going off of that I said why don’t we promise each other right now that this is never going to happen to us again. Looking around the room there were very few hands in the air unfortunately,” recalled Nankivell, a longtime member of the Harrison football community as a player and assistant coach. “In the beginning of the year, we’re having our first team dinner kind of thing and I said raise your hand if you’ve ever had a winning season in your athletic career. Head girls flag football coach Dan Nankivell was reminded of that during one of the first preseason meetings he had with his team. While the school as a whole has continued to produce plenty of success on the field and court, its girls programs have struggled to even field winning seasons. It’s been a rough few years for the girls sports at Harrison High School.
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