From Trialist to World Champion to Expectation
Almost twelve months ago, Isabella Geraci took a step into the relative unknown. A year later, she is a world champion and is looking to capture The World Games and IFAF Americas continental gold medals.
Isabella spoke to IFAF last February from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where USA Football was holding annual tryouts for an already formidable women’s flag football national team that was looking to enhance its roster. First, she made the cut from 60 hopefuls to a squad of 18 and was then selected for the 12-strong group that headed to Finland and ultimately won the 2024 IFAF Flag Football World Championships.
“It’s been like a whirlwind,” said Isabella when taking a break from conducting media interviews on Radio Row during the week building up to Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. “Everything has happened so fast and we’re at events like this and I have to take a step back and appreciate that this is really amazing, and I feel honored to be able to do anything like this.
“I grew up playing football and so to be able to say I’m here as part of the Super Bowl and we have the Olympics coming up with the goal being to represent my country on that level, it’s just amazing.”
