Gfwtf - Granite Falls Women’s Tiger Football

11/11/2026

🖤🧡 **TIGER FAMILIES, LET’S COME TOGETHER!** 🧡🖤
One of our very own Tiger families experienced a devastating house fire last night, losing their home and everything inside. We are incredibly thankful that everyone made it out safely, but our hearts are heavy knowing this family is facing such a heartbreaking and overwhelming situation.

**Now it’s our turn to show up for them!**

They are in need of our support as they begin to navigate the difficult road ahead. Any physical donations are greatly appreciated and can be dropped off at the Gabaldon home. If needed, we can also arrange a pickup.

For those who are able to contribute financially, any amount would be an incredible blessing and will go a long way in helping this family get back on their feet.

Let's show what it truly means to be part of the Tiger family. We stand by our motto, **"ONE TEAM, ONE FAMILY,"** and now is the time to put those words into action.

Let's wrap this amazing family in love, support, and generosity. Every little bit helps!

**Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger!** 🖤🧡

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11/08/2026

Super proud of our Youth Senior Football team headed to tge Championships! 🧡🖤🏈

🏆🏈 NCYFL CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE COMING TO GRANITE FALLS! 🏈🏆

🧡🖤 ONE TEAM. ONE FAMILY. BOOM! 🖤🧡

We are incredibly proud and excited to announce that Granite Falls will be hosting the 2026 NCYFL CHAMPIONSHIPS on Saturday, November 14th, at Granite Falls High School! 🐅🔥

Congratulations to ALL the teams who have battled their way to the championship games! Your hard work, dedication, and determination have earned you a spot on the biggest stage of the season!

🏆 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SCHEDULE 🏆

📍 Granite Falls High School

🏈 9:00 AM – Peewees
Concrete vs. Tulalip Marysville

🏈 10:30 AM – Midgets
Anacortes vs. Tulalip Marysville

🏈 12:30 PM – Juniors
Anacortes vs. Lakewood

🏈 2:30 PM – Seniors
🧡 GRANITE FALLS TIGERS vs. LAKEWOOD 🖤

🔥 A VERY SPECIAL SHOUTOUT to our GRANITE FALLS SENIORS, who are heading into the championship as the #1 SEED! These athletes and coaches have worked incredibly hard all season, and we couldn't be prouder to watch them battle for the championship title right here on our HOME FIELD! 🏆🐅

📣 TIGER NATION, WE NEED YOU! Let's pack those stands, bring the noise, wear your ORANGE & BLACK, and show the entire league what TIGER PRIDE is all about!

🙌 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🙌

With Granite Falls hosting all four championship games, we will need volunteers to help run our concessions throughout the day! 🍿🌭🥤

Our volunteers are what make these events possible, and we would love for our Tiger families to help us make championship day a huge success! Whether you can give a little time or a full shift, your support makes a difference. 🧡🖤

Let's come together, support our athletes, welcome our visiting teams, and show everyone what our Tiger community is all about!

🧡🖤 ONE TEAM. ONE FAMILY. BOOM! 🏈🔥



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10/20/2026

🏈🧡🖤 GFWTF YOUTH SPORTS SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE! 🏆

At Granite Falls Women's Tiger Football (GFWTF), we believe every child deserves the opportunity to play sports, build friendships, learn teamwork, and grow in confidence! 💪🐯

Our mission goes beyond the football field. We are passionate about giving back to our community and supporting the next generation of athletes!

We are excited to offer Youth Sports Scholarships to help local families with the costs of participating in youth athletics.

🧡 Because every child deserves a chance to play.

🖤 Because financial barriers shouldn't keep kids on the sidelines.

🏈 Because investing in our youth means investing in the future of our community!

Know a young athlete who could benefit from a scholarship? We'd love to hear from you!

📩 Reach out to GFWTF for more information.

🌐 www.gfwtf.org

Strong Women. Strong Community. Strong Future. 🧡🖤

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10/20/2026

🐯🏈🔥 GRANITE FALLS WOMEN’S TIGER FOOTBALL IS RECRUITING COACHES FOR 2027! 🔥🏈🐯
🚨 COACHES — WE WANT YOU ON OUR SIDELINE! 🚨
💥 Ready to make an impact? Passionate about football, teamwork, and empowering women? We’re looking for dedicated coaches to join our Tiger family for the 2027 season!
🏈 WHAT IS FLACKLE?! 🏈
It’s FULL-CONTACT FLAG FOOTBALL! 💪 We wear full football gear and play using youth tackle rules, but with flags! Players can be tackled or have two of their three flags pulled to be considered down.
🔥 Many of our athletes started with ZERO football experience — now they’re hooked! With great coaching, teamwork, and determination, we’re building confidence, leadership, and a strong community both on and off the field.
🐯 OUR MISSION: Empower women through the spirit and strength of football while creating opportunities for growth, confidence, teamwork, and leadership. We’re also committed to supporting youth sports and making athletics more accessible to the next generation!
💥 WE NEED COACHES WHO BRING:
🏈 Football knowledge and a willingness to teach
💪 Leadership, commitment, and teamwork
🔥 Positive energy and a passion for empowering women
🐯 The drive to help build something BIG!
We compete against three amazing local women’s teams: Stanwood, Skagit Valley, and Lake Stevens!
📣 HELP US BUILD THE NEXT CHAPTER OF TIGER FOOTBALL!
If interested please apply below

🐯🔥 ONE TEAM. ONE FAMILY.🔥🐯

All coaches and assistant coaches are expected to promote sportsmanship, teamwork, integrity, respect, and player safety. Coaches must serve as positive role models and prioritize the physical and emotional well-being of all athletes.

10/13/2026

🏈🧡🖤 2027 PLAYER REGISTRATION IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!!! 🖤🧡🏈

🐯 GRANITE FALLS WOMEN'S TIGER FOOTBALL (GFWTF) IS LOOKING FOR YOU! 🐯

We're more than just a football team. We're a sisterhood, a family, and a group of strong women who believe in lifting each other up, breaking barriers, and making a difference in our community! 💪🧡

GFWTF is a nonprofit women's tackle football team built on teamwork, empowerment, friendship, and a shared passion for giving back. We believe in leading by example, showing our youth what hard work, dedication, confidence, and perseverance look like both on and off the field.

🔥 WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 🔥

🏈 TEAM PLAYERS – Women who believe in working together, supporting one another, and putting the team first.

🧡 COMMUNITY-MINDED WOMEN – Women who are passionate about supporting our local youth, giving back, and making a positive impact.

💪 WOMEN READY TO CHALLENGE THEMSELVES – Whether you're looking to get active, try something new, or push yourself outside your comfort zone, there's a place for you!

🐯 WOMEN WHO WANT TO BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THEMSELVES – Lasting friendships, confidence, a strong sisterhood, and a legacy for the next generation of female athletes.

📅 WHAT DOES OUR 2027 SEASON LOOK LIKE?
🏈 February/March: Our season kicks off with practices, learning the game, building skills, and growing together as a team!

🐯 End of April: Jamboree time! Our first opportunity to get out on the field and put our hard work into action!

🔥 May & June: GAME TIME! We'll take the field, compete, cheer each other on, and make memories that last a lifetime!

Dates are approximate and subject to scheduling.

🙌 NO FOOTBALL EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! Seriously! Whether you've played sports your entire life or have never touched a football, we want you! All you need is a willingness to learn, a positive attitude, commitment, and HEART!

We aren't just building football players. We're building confident women, lifelong friendships, community leaders, and opportunities for the next generation.

There's something incredibly powerful about women from all walks of life coming together, putting on pads, stepping onto that field, and proving what they're capable of. And doing it alongside women who have your back makes it even better! 🧡🖤

🔥 YOUR 2027 FOOTBALL JOURNEY STARTS HERE! 🔥

Ready to be part of something special? Come join our Tiger family!

🏈 2027 PLAYER REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfl_XrQe24ENRVyrwFlgtSfusKDPcGTvntNgbHeWIW4RgsEzQ/viewform?usp=header

🖤🧡 ONE TEAM. ONE FAMILY. ONE SISTERHOOD. 🧡🖤

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09/28/2026

🏈 Shoutout to Ellie from our neighbors, the Lakewood Cougars! 🐾

From playing Peewee football to earning the starting center spot on the freshman team, Ellie represents the heart and grit we love to see in football. The women of GFWTF are cheering you on, Ellie! Keep working hard and showing the next generation of girls what’s possible. 🧡🖤💪

WD SPORTS MEDIA PLAYER SPOTLIGHT

At six years old, Ellie Bennett put on a football helmet and stepped onto the field. She never stopped coming back.

Year after year, season after season, football became part of her life.

She grew up in the Lakewood Youth Football program, starting with peewees and continuing all the way through seniors. Along the way, Ellie became the first girl to complete the entire Lakewood Youth Football program from beginning to end.

That is years of practices.

Years of games.

Years of cold mornings, sore muscles, long drives, hard losses and moments that make all of it worth it.

And through every stage, Ellie kept showing up.

Now she is a freshman at Lakewood High School and the starting center for the freshman football team. She also suits up and travels with varsity, learning from the older players and getting a look at the level she hopes to reach.

For Ellie, this is not a story about a girl who decided to try football.

She has been doing this most of her life.

She knows what it feels like to line up across from someone bigger than her.

She knows what it feels like to get knocked down.

And more importantly, she knows how to get back up.

Playing center means every offensive play begins with her. Before the quarterback gets the ball, Ellie has a job to do. She has to read the defense, communicate with the line, make the snap and immediately go to work.

It is one of those positions that does not always get the attention, but the offense cannot function without it.

That fits Ellie’s story.

A lot of her journey has happened away from the spotlight.

The practices.

The work.

The years she spent proving she belonged.

Now people are starting to notice.

Ellie is also a Tulalip Tribal member, and that makes this story even more special for us.

Every time she steps onto that field, she carries her family, her community and the young Native athletes who may be watching her and wondering if there is a place for them too.

There is.

Ellie is showing them.

Her athletic story does not end with football either. She has played basketball with Lakewood Select and plans to play for Lakewood High School this winter. She has also competed in track and field, including the shot put.

But football has been there since she was six.

From peewees to seniors.

From youth football to high school.

From a little girl putting on pads to a freshman starting at center and traveling with varsity.

That kind of journey does not happen by accident.

It takes commitment.

It takes family.

It takes coaches who believe in you.

And it takes a young athlete who refuses to stop showing up.

Ellie is only a freshman.

There is still so much of this story left to tell.

But one thing is already clear.

She earned this moment.

Congratulations Ellie.

And congratulations to her parents, grandparents, family, coaches and everyone who has been part of those years behind the scenes.

WD Sports Media and WDHoopsMedia are proud to shine a light on Ellie Bennett.

We will be watching the rest of the journey.

Ellie Bennett
Lakewood Cougars
Freshman
Starting Center — Freshman Football
Varsity Travel Roster
Tulalip Tribal Member

WD Sports Media | WDHoopsMedia

Preserving the youths history.



All photos provided by Britney Craig

09/01/2026

🐯🧡 SUPPORT OUR HOMETOWN LADY TIGERS! 🖤🏈
Our very own Espresso Loco, right next to Subway, is helping support our hometown women’s football team!
☕️ Order the TIGERS BLOOD LOTUS and $1 from every drink sold will be donated to the Lady Tigers! 🧡🖤
Stop by, grab a Tigers Blood Lotus, and show some love to a local business that is supporting YOUR hometown Lady Tigers! 🐯🏈
Drink up. Support local. Support the LADY TIGERS! 🧡🖤
Thank you so much Espresso Loco for always supporting us 🧡🖤

08/28/2026

So incredibly proud of all the Women helping the youth in their communities.

Tomorrow, youth football players across Skagit, Snohomish, Island, and Whatcom Counties will hit the gridiron for their first games of the season!

Our women’s football teams want to give a huge shoutout to all the players and coaches and recognize some incredible women from our own teams who are giving back to the next generation of youth football.

Did you know? 👀

The women of the Lake Stevens Valkyries, Stanwood Spartans, Skagit Valley Warriors, and Granite Falls Tigers aren’t just playing football on the weekends. Many are also coaching, officiating, and teaching youth football.

They’re helping kids learn the fundamentals, build confidence, work as a team, compete, and believe in themselves.

And it doesn’t stop with football. Many of these women also coach other sports, including girls’ flag football, men’s football, wrestling, softball, and soccer.

That’s the part of women’s football that doesn’t always get talked about the impact these women are making beyond the field.

So today, we’re recognizing some of the women from our local women’s football teams who are giving their time and knowledge to youth football. 👏🏈 Peep them on the sidelines.

🟢 Skagit Valley Warriors
Jackie Freeman — Coach
Tayler Frazer — Coach

🔴 Stanwood Spartan Powderpuff
Melanie Pennington — Coach
Kaylee Williams — Referee

🟣 Lake Stevens Valkyries
Dre Pellegrino — Coach
Sarah Cooper — Coach

Previously Coached
Alisha Injinmej
Crystal Sager
Gina Buckmiller
Haley Brennan
Kara Aldous
Maricela Bonilla
Rebecca Bernstein
Rocky Sauceda

🟠 Granite Falls Tigers
Samantha Steele — Coach
Heather Herdt — Coach
Ashley Hoge — Coach
Alina Williams — Coach
Raven Skiles — Coach
Charlcy Lung — Coach
Stephanie Farman- Referee

To every woman putting in the extra hours, standing on the sidelines, blowing the whistle, teaching the fundamentals, encouraging a kid after a tough play, and helping build the next generation:

We see you. We appreciate you. And we’re proud of you.

08/17/2026

🧡🖤 NATIONAL NONPROFIT DAY | MORE THAN A FOOTBALL TEAM 🖤🧡

Today, on National Nonprofit Day, we want to recognize the incredible women behind Granite Falls Women’s Tiger Football and the heart behind everything we do.

GFWTF was built by women who wanted to do more than play football. Our board members and players volunteer their time, step onto the field, fundraise, serve, and give back with one shared purpose: supporting the youth in our community.

Money raised through GFWTF helps provide youth sports registration scholarships, helping remove financial barriers so more kids have the opportunity to participate in sports, belong to a team, build confidence, and experience everything athletics can teach them. 🏈🧡

And our impact goes beyond fundraising.

Currently, SIX of our GFWTF players are also coaching youth football with GFYAA -Granite Falls Youth Athletic Assocation These women aren't just playing the game—they're giving their time and knowledge back to the next generation, leading young athletes and showing them firsthand what commitment, teamwork, resilience, and service look like.

We are incredibly proud of the women who make this organization possible—the board members working behind the scenes, the players putting in the work, our coaches, volunteers, sponsors, families, and everyone who supports our mission.

Every fundraiser. Every sponsorship. Every volunteer hour. Every practice. Every game.

It all comes back to COMMUNITY. 🧡

We are women supporting women, athletes supporting athletes, and a team committed to making sure more kids have the opportunity to PLAY.

Learn more about our mission and support GFWTF at gfwtf.org.

🐯 One Team. One Family. BOOM. 💥