The final flag: A recap of McIntosh Chiefs final flag season

Maddie Hines, Social Media

Dec 3, 2025

On Thursday, Nov 13, the McIntosh Varsity Flag football team had their final games between Whitewater High and Spalding County. Whitewater won the first game with a score of 0-20 while the Lady Chiefs won the second game against Spalding, going into overtime with a score of 6-0.

“My mindset was just to have fun because these were our last two games and I just wanted to have the best time with my team,” junior Janeesa Hayes said.

I then asked the girls what they thought of their performance overall.

“We probably could have done better on some things, specifically, offense things, as we didn’t really know what was going on, but we probably could improve,” sophomore Trinity Rosario said.

With this being the final game of the flag football season, the ending was heartfelt moments for the team.

“Bittersweet” As Hayes described it. “Bittersweet because there was a lot of different connections and like everybody got to build like different bonds with a bunch of different teammates that they have never played with before.”

Most emotions were still relatively the same but did vary.

“I feel sad,” Rosario said. “I’m gonna miss the seniors most definitely. It was my first season and year here, so I’m definitely gonna miss some but I’m glad I got to meet a lot of new people,”

This year was the second year of having a flag football team, Coach Dallas Regan reflects on the team’s work this season.

“Our season was a great testament to the work-ethic of our female athletes. This season they were dealt a brand new coaching staff in only the 2nd year ever of having a Flag Football team at McIntosh High School. They had to learn a new offense and a new defense and they responded very well in rising to that challenge,” Reagan said.

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Maddie Hines, Social Media

Hines is a Senior at McIntosh and this is her third year on staff on the Trail. This year she serves as the Social Media Manager as well as her continuation on Team Multimedia. In her freshman year, she was Vice President of her class. Hines is currently a McIntosh Ambassador and has also done debate at the state level. Hines is interested in things like creative writing, film and law. In fact, from 2017-2019, she spent three weeks of each summer staying on campus at Emory University for this summer program called SIG (Summer Institute for the Gifted.) There she took classes like song writing, filming, working a camera, creative writing, things of that nature. At Emory, she was able to see what life would be like as a college student. She hopes to obtain some degree in law as well as journalism in the future. In the 2024-2025 school year, Hines was awarded Superior at the GSPA Spring 2025 Convention for her podcast episode “Putting the U in HBCU” where she talks about historically Black Colleges/Universities During her free time, she likes to play volleyball, bake, watch movies, and spend time with friends and family. Because she is new on staff, she hopes to learn new things and new life skills such as responsibility, punctuality and reliability.