By Bernie Puchalski, BP Sports Niagara

The Niagara Youth Flag Football Nitro are ready to conquer America.

Seven travel teams from NYFF will be heading to Lakeland, Fla., Jan. 13-15 for the national championships in January, including under-10 and under-12 girls teams and under-7, under-10, under-11, under-12 and under-15 boys teams.

“The cool thing we are super excited about is that in every division there are 16 to 24 teams,” NYFF owner and coach Matt Hill said. “We are going to get a lot of good competition.”

He is confident the Nitro squads will do well against their American opponents.

“We have a couple of teams who are a little bit new but we have some really seasoned teams here who have played the best of the best. Our U11 boys, who I am fortunate enough to coach with, were at the NFL Flag Regionals this summer and we fell just short to a very strong Quebec team which goes down to the States all the time and does very well. Our girls team was down in Pennsylvania playing the best teams in America and we lost by a touchdown to the No. 1-ranked team.”

There is talent at all levels of the travel part of the organization.

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