Silvia CONTRERAS A FORCE IN FLAG FOOTBALL

CONTRERAS

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Flag Football gained popularity in Mexico, and instrumental in this rise is the member of Mexico's women's team, Silvia Contreras, who has led her squad to win both gold and silver at the World Games. She started playing Flag Football in high school when a friend of her who was a big fan of American football wanted to try it out. She went with her to see what it was all about, and fell in love with it in 2009. She made it to the national team in 2018, and in 2022 she became the captain and later during the IFAF Americas Championship, she was named officially the captain of the Mexico national Flag Football team.

As part of the Mexico Flag Football women’s team who has been TWG Champions from 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama, and won the silver medal at the 2024 World Championships in Lahti, Finland.

Women Fitness President Ms. Namita Nayyar catches up with Silvia Contreras is an exceptionally talented Mexican Flag Football Player, winner of gold medal at The World Games 2022, here she talks about her fitness routine, her diet, and her success story.

Where were you born? In 2009 started playing Flag Football while in high school. You were selected in the Mexican Flag Football team in 2018 and went on to become its captain in 2022. This later propelled your career to the height where you have been at the top of the world as a Flag Football player. Tell us more about your professional journey of exceptional hard work, tenacity, and endurance?

I was born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México a very small town but when I was three years old my family moved to Tijuana, a big city just across the border from San Diego.