SPORTS & MORE: WOMEN’S FLAG FOOTBALL HAS BEEN A LONG JOURNEY
When I first met Diane Beruldsen, she was teaching at Sugarloaf School and playing as DBQB in a three-team women’s flag football league at Bernstein Field on Stock Island. That was in the early 1990s. Now she’s traveling all over the world, building the International Women’s Flag Football Association as its founder and president. “I think two dozen or more,” she said, counting off the countries she’s visited, “26 probably,” selling the values of flag football. “It’s my journey. It’s why I was born,” said Beruldsen. After the games end, the players shake hands and there are lots...