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Katie
DiChiaro and Jenn Kisslinger, of Gridiron Partners, are bringing their
love of flag football to young girls and women across the tri-state.

News 12
photojournalists Haley Clark and John Dulak have their story.

Katie DiChiaro and Jenn Kisslinger, of Gridiron Partners, are bringing their love of flag football to young girls and women across the tri-state.

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All right. There are less than 21 days until Christmas and a week to the first day of winter. I don't like, I, I don't like talking about that. I just go, don't worry, Kevin, we're gonna go ahead and make sure that we're gonna have any cold air coming our way as we move on in towards those first few days of winter coming on up because you can see that temperature trend for the month of December shows us trending on the warmer than average side. In which case, the average high throughout the month is around 39 to 47 degrees. So we'll be seeing sixties and seventies. No, but we'll be trending a little bit around 47. Are you a little bit warmer? Yeah, it is certainly possible. Especially heading up in tours this weekend. I'll show you those numbers in just a moment first. These numbers right here as we're continuing the countdown for the holiday season. We do have winter officially arriving December 21st in the evening hours, 17 days from now. Christmas arrives, of course, December 25th, 21 days from now. So you still have time to go ahead and continue some holiday shopping and New Year's Eve, of course, getting ready to ring in 2024 27 days from now. Looking out and about, it's a quiet night out there past the Cuomo Bridge. We are watching those skies getting clearer as time goes on, temperatures cooling down to the upper thirties and then we'll watch more cloud cover head our way going in through the middle of the day, but no showers are coming out of those clouds. In fact, we'll continue to enjoy a dry stretch of weather. We certainly do need to have that kind of raw wet day on Sunday. Well, look at this. Our next chance of rain is coming up this coming Sunday where we're gonna be watching a large system moving towards the northeast, but Saturday is gonna be beautiful. It's my pick of the week, probably cloudy skies 53 degrees for a high running nearly 10 degrees above the average high of 44. So for your future cast, we go tomorrow afternoon we have temperatures in the thirties and forties feeling a little bit cooler. And then by Wednesday morning, we see those temperatures in the twenties and thirties having a touch of a chill in the air. So each and every morning going forward, it's gonna feel a little bit colder and colder. Getting in towards Friday to Saturday. Here comes that system heading our way. A southerly breeze will help to boost those temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Then here comes the rain, Sunday morning, just rain coming on down, breezy winds. Then the system is out of here by Sunday night. So we should go in towards our Monday coming out of next week with drier, yet cooler air coming on down. So guys overall a very nice stretch of 10 days with one dreary day in sight.

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Duo kicks off flag football program to empower girls and women in the tri-state

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alright as our women's history month coverage continues here at news 12. A duo in summers are bringing their love of flag football to young girls and women across the tri state News 12. Photojournalist Haley clark and john do lock have their story. I've been playing flag football for four years, two years while now. It's been like a lot, as long as we can remember almost. I have seen girls come onto the field on the first day as kindergartners and start to cry hide behind parents because it was football and as you know, there are sometimes afraid of something that they don't perceive themselves as capable of doing and those are the same exact girls that have a level of confidence that's translated into so many aspects of their lives that both we see and the parents have told us about our mission from the Beginning was to just give the girls an opportunity where there wasn't one, it was normally a sport that only boys played and I thought it'd be really fun for the girls to try it. To what started as an after school program with eight Children has become 180 kids with 22 teams in 11 games on any given Sunday kate and I started gridiron partners. So now we can actually reach out to other schools or programs or organizations in the tri state area and bring this love of girls flag football to other places. We really wanted to make sure that these girls could be in the arena if they want to work in football or play football that we could create these opportunities to allow and to help them and support those decisions. I think they're amazing. They're amazing people really trying hard to put all this together and make this happen. Look at where we started to where we are now. Like a lot of hard work has gone into it. If you create an opportunity where it's a safe and supportive environment, people will be more likely to step out of their comfort zones and try something new and challenge themselves. There should not even be a second thought that whatever arena you step into, whether it's life, work sports, you belong there. If you feel you belong there and there should be no constraints or restraints based on anything such as gender, especially I think sports brings different aspects to your life like competitiveness. You can challenge yourself and overcome fears. I don't think flag football for women is going anywhere. So we're really excited that we had started in in our area and now we're just, we just want to expand it to anywhere we can and help anybody who wants to start their own organization. So that girls in their communities have the opportunity as well. We can't wait to see where we want to go next with this. Play, play flag football. It's fun

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