NIRSA today announces a partnership with BreakAway Data, naming the sports technology company official stats platform and a founding partner of NIRSA Club Flag. The partnership will provide live game stats and season-long leaderboards for the league’s nearly 90 clubs, with coverage continuing through the National Championship.
Built by a team with experience developing performance systems within the Los Angeles Dodgers, NFL, NBA and NWSL, BreakAway brings a professional sports approach to flag football. Its platform, built specifically for flag football, connects game results, box scores, team standings, and player statistics, helping turn individual games into a season-long record of achievement.
Keeping score
For NIRSA’s growing community of collegiate women’s club flag football programs, the partnership adds another piece of the foundation for a national league: a consistent way to document what happens on the field and recognize the athletes making it happen.
“Our athletes deserve to see their accomplishments recorded, recognized and shared,” says Pam Watts, Executive Director of NIRSA. “BreakAway Data will help us tell the story of this inaugural season through the performances of the women building these programs. It gives teams another way to celebrate their players and gives families, classmates, and fans more ways to follow along.”
Each club participating in the league will receive free access to BreakAway, allowing teams to record game stats in real time from a phone. Those stats feed live box scores, individual athlete profiles, and shareable stat cards available as soon as the game ends, while league standings and leaderboards update throughout the season. Programs can also use BreakAway’s recruiting tools to find and connect with high school talent, helping build the next wave of college flag football players.
“Every touchdown, interception, and big performance is part of the story we’re building,” says Emily Hughes, Sr. Director of Business Strategy & Partnerships at NIRSA. “Having a shared stats platform helps connect those pivotal moments across our league. It gives athletes something to take pride in and helps people follow the competition beyond their own school.”
Key features
BreakAway’s broader platform supports scheduling, brackets, and roster management alongside statistics and results. The company provides onboarding and training to help organizations incorporate its tools into their existing operations.
“Flag football is exploding at the youth and high school level, and NIRSA is giving those athletes the chance to play competitively in college,” says Dave Anderson, CEO of BreakAway Data. “This isn’t just for fun, these are important and competitive games and starting this spring, every NIRSA Club Flag game lives on BreakAway, and every athlete builds a career record that’s theirs to share and keep long after each season. If it’s flag football, it’s on BreakAway. Now that includes college!”
The NIRSA Club Flag League begins play in spring 2027 with nearly 600 games and 80+ participating colleges and universities across the United States. Additional information about platform access and implementation will be shared with participating programs ahead of the season.
About BreakAway Data
BreakAway is the home of flag football. Teams record their games on a phone, and every athlete gets a live box score and a profile, plus stat cards to share. From youth leagues to international play, BreakAway gives a sport growing at every level the record it deserves. BreakAway has headquarters in El Segundo, Calif. Learn more on the BreakAway website.
- If you have additional questions about NIRSA Flag Football, please contact NIRSA National Flag Football Manager Nik Sandona; for media inquiries, contact Jake Duhaime, MAXX MGMT.
