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A Bracket Built for Champions: Robinson’s Dynasty Meets the New FHSAA Open Division
Every dynasty eventually meets a new test. For the Robinson Knights, the test is a bracket designed specifically for programs like theirs.
The Florida High School Athletic Association has opened a new Open Division that pulls the top eight schools in a sport into their own championship bracket, and Robinson flag football — Tampa’s standard-setter — is projected to land in it, according to reporting by Knight Writers, the school’s student newspaper. For most programs, that would be a problem. For Robinson, it is the latest twist in a reign that has no modern equal in Florida girls sports.
The Knights won the state championship last spring for the 10th year in a row — their 11th state title overall. A decade of champions came before them, and every one of those teams understood the expectation: at Robinson, the season ends with a trophy or it ends in disappointment.
The Open Division changes the math of a title defense. Instead of working through a classification bracket, the Knights would face a gauntlet made up entirely of Florida’s best — the kind of field where there are no early-round breathers and every opponent has championship pedigree of its own.
Florida plays its girls flag football season in the spring, which makes this fall the runway. The Knights spend these months the way they spend every month: developing the next wave of players who will be asked to keep the streak alive when the games return in February.
Ten straight state titles is not a streak anymore. It is an institution. The Open Division was built to challenge the best programs in Florida — and nobody in the state has a better claim to that title than Robinson.
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We Speak Flag / 7v7 Football
The Skipps Twins Deliver Alaska’s Title, and Dimond’s Run Ends One Game Short
Alaska’s girls flag football championship ran through a pair of twin sisters.
Taimane and Jade Skipps combined to score all four of North Pole’s touchdowns as the Patriots beat Colony 27-21 on Oct. 10 at Wasilla High School to win the ASAA First National Bowl state championship. Both twins were named to the all-tournament team. North Pole finished 19-2 and claimed its second state title in three years, having won Alaska’s inaugural tournament in 2024.
The Patriots’ semifinal was the weekend’s most lopsided statement: a 32-0 shutout of Anchorage power Dimond. Colony reached the final by upsetting defending champion South Anchorage 13-0 in the other semifinal, after opening its tournament with a 53-6 rout of Service.
Dimond, pictured above in its Sept. 29 meeting with South, had authored its own memorable fall — a 46-6 rout of Wasilla and a 6-0 overtime win over South among the highlights the Lynx posted this season. The semifinal shutout ended the run one game short of the final, but Dimond remains one of the programs setting the standard in the Cook Inlet Conference, where Anchorage’s schools have driven the sport’s growth.
That growth is the bigger Alaska story. A state tournament that did not exist three years ago now produces a final four of North Pole, Colony, Dimond and South Anchorage — programs from the Fairbanks area, the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage trading shutouts and one-score games in October weather that would cancel games almost anywhere else.
North Pole owns the trophy again, and the Skipps twins own the story. But the field chasing them is getting deeper every year, and Dimond’s fall is proof the Patriots will not hold the top spot unchallenged for long.
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