Diana Flores Arenas

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Diana Flores Arenas (born 1997) is a Mexican flag football player. She is a quarterback and captain of the Mexican national team. [1] [2] [3]

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Flag football career

Flores started playing flag football when she was eight years old. From an early age she joined important female leagues, among them the "Tocho Bandera" team of the White Eagles of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. [4] [5] In 2012, at the age of 14, she was called up to lead the North Penn High School team in Pennsylvania, United States, where they were crowned NFL regional champions.

In 2014, at the age of 16, she joined the Mexican national team that contended in that year's IFAF Flag Football World Championship in Grosseto, Italy. She became the youngest player to compete in an international tournament. In 2016, at the age of 18, she participated in the IFAF Flag Football World Championship held in Miami, Florida. The team won the bronze medal. [6] Flores also played for the Mexico national team in Panama in 2018, and Jerusalem in 2021.

As quarterback, she took the team to gold at the 2022 World Games. [7] With the match, she achieved a record of six wins and 0 losses. In the final against the United States, she completed 20 of 28 pass attempts for 210 yards and four touchdowns, leading Mexico to a victory of 39–6.

She played the Pro Bowl in Las Vegas in February 2023 where she played offense. [8] [9]

Flores is an ambassador for the NFL [7] and during the Super Bowl LVII game she was the protagonist for the commercial Run With it, promoting flag football as an Olympic sport in 2028. The cast for the ad included flag football players Bella Rasmussen and Vanita Krouch, as well as Billie Jean King, and MrBeast. [4] [10] [3] [11]

Education

Flores studied marketing and communications at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Santa Fe Campus.

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  1. ↑ "Diana Flores espera que el Flag Football se vuelve deporte-olímpico". ESPNdeportes.com. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Diana Flores ambassador of Flag Football".
  3. 1 2 "Who is Diana Flores, the Mexican athlete who appeared in Super Bowl LVII?". La Silla Rota. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Diana Flores, la MEXICANA que la ROMPIÓ en la NFL". YouTube . 14 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  5. ↑ "Mexican stars in NFL commercial during Super Bowl 2023". ABC Noticias. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "2016 IFAF Flag Football World Championships" (in Spanish). Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Americano.
  7. 1 2 "The World Games flag football medalists honored at NFL kickoff in Los Angeles". International World Games Association. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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