The Dr. Warren J. McClain Touchdown Club of Southern New Jersey will be holding a banquet to welcome its newest members to the organization: Participants in girls’ flag football.
The TD Club will celebrate the sport, team captains from 26 area schools as well as the four West Jersey Football League division champions and overall titlist from the 2024 season on Tuesday, June 4 at Aldelphia Restaurant in Deptford. The event will start at 6 p.m.
Tickets for the inaugural Girls’ Flag Football Banquet, which will feature dinner, speeches and raffles for giveaways, are $35 per ticket (for all non-invitees) and must be reserved by May 28. Email TD Club secretary June Cioffi at jcioffi@krsd.us to reserve tickets.
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The non-profit organization has honored South Jersey football players since its inception in 1967.
“The Touchdown Club has a long and storied history of recognizing South Jersey’s finest football athletes on and off the field and we are excited that there are more athletes to welcome to our club,” Touchdown Club president Mark Trible said in a press release. “We are fully supportive of Girls Flag Football as a sport and are steadfast in the belief that its athletes should be acknowledged and honored in the same way we have done with our tackle football players.
“We are thrilled to open our club to the sport and all who have helped it grow.”
Cioffi added, “As a longtime member of the Touchdown Club’s Executive Board, I am excited and appreciative that the Club has embraced Girls’ Flag Football. I couldn’t think of a better organization to take this on and continue to honor student-athletes as we do in the fall.
“As flag football continues to grow in New Jersey, I am excited to see it grow within the club as well.”
For information about the club, visit TouchdownClubofSJ.com.
Tom McGurk is a regional sports reporter for the Courier-Post, The Daily Journal and Burlington County Times, covering South Jersey sports for over 30 years. If you have a sports story that needs to be told, contact him at (856) 486-2420 or email tmcgurk@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @McGurkSports. Help support local journalism with a digital subscription.
