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Diana Flores is a flag football superstar.

When she was 16 years old, she became the youngest player ever to join the Mexico Women's Flag Football Team.

Eight years later, she won gold for Mexico at the

2022 World Games, and she made history as the first flag football player to be part of the exhibition

at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And, of course, we all fell in love with her when she burst onto our

screens in an NFL commercial during the 2023 Super Bowl. Deanna and I talk about discovering the sport when she was just eight years old,

but the year she spent angling and working to become quarterback can teach other ambitious Latinas

and why her commitment to women in sports is bigger than herself. Diana, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for inviting me. I'm so happy to be here with you. Finally.

We saw you in that Super Bowl out and we were like, oh, we have to get this girl. You start playing flag football when you're eight, eight years old?

Yes, when I was very little. And it's your dad who realizes very quickly that you have potential.

What is it that your dad saw? And how did you begin working together to cultivate whatever that early talent was?

My dad used to play football when he was in high school and college.

So I think that rather than he's seeing something like on me, he wanted me to experience

a love and the passion for that sport.

So that's what took him to bring me to my first flat football practice. And I fell in love with the sport.

When you're 16, you join the women's national team and there's already a quarterback. So you

played wide receiver, you played linebacker. First, what did you learn

playing other rules? As you mentioned, I started my journey with the national team being the

youngest player, with players that were more experienced than me. Most of them already had like

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