Our Mills Flag Football team has been creating interesting and fun games to watch this season. On September 16, 2025, Mills flag football team played against South San Francisco, it was a good game because both teams JV and Varsity won, the final scores were 32-0 Varsity and 27-0 JV. And then again on September 17th, Varsity demolished Half Moon Bay 55-12.
Wide receiver Lucy Esquivel (11), free safety Gabby Moreno (11), and wide receiver Amaya Moore (12) are on the Varsity team. “My goals for the season is to grow as a player with my team and my skills on the field and just have a fun season,” Lucy shared.
Elaborating on the need for both technical and soft skills, Moreno added, “My goals for the season is to have a strongest team bond because that’s really helpful on the field and just to have fun overall.” Amaya commented, “My goals for the season are to win for the league and make it far in CCS [Central Coast Section].”
When I asked what they enjoy about playing flag football, Esquivel explained, “I like the team environment and just creating a bond with all my teammates, but also just experiencing flag football, because it’s such a new sport and it’s something that girls nowadays can play and get recognition for it.” For context, flag football was recently added as a sport at Mills two seasons ago after the sport was officialized in California in the spring of 2023.
Moreno said, “In general I like football, so I think playing it is really fun and it’s just very intense, and the people are fun too,” with Moore expanding, “It’s fun, there is a lot of energy around it, and it’s just fun overall playing with people.”
Lastly, when I asked why they chose to play the position they are currently playing, Esquivel started us off by saying, “I like to play wide receiver because I receive the deep throws and me and Alissa connect when she throws it deep, I also play defense, so I like grabbing the flags and just blocking and intercepting the ball.”
Amaya commented on the same question saying, “I play wide receiver because of my speed and my height, and being able to go deep and catch the ball no matter what circumstance.” Moreno also adding on to this question said, “I like to play free safety because it is very active on defense so I’m always in the plays and I also get a lot of interceptions.”
The Mills flag football team has a great season showing their sportsmanship and how they are always trying to improve to become better as single players and as a team.
