Flag Football gained popularity in Mexico, and instrumental in this rise is the member of Mexico’s women’s team, Silvia Contreras, who has led her squad to win both gold and silver at the World Games. She started playing Flag Football in high school when a friend of her who was a big fan of American football wanted to try it out. She went with her to see what it was all about, and fell in love with it in 2009. She made it to the national team in 2018, and in 2022 she became the captain and later during the IFAF Americas Championship, she was named officially the captain of the Mexico national Flag Football team.
As part of the Mexico Flag Football women’s team who has been TWG Champions from 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama, and won the silver medal at the 2024 World Championships in Lahti, Finland.
Silvia Contreras Achievements
Gold Medal TWG 2022 BHM Alabama
Silver Medal FFWC 2021 Jerusalem Israel
National Champ 2022 Mexico City
National Champ 2022 Mexico City and Most Valued Player
Gold Medal The World Games 2022
Silver Medal IFAF World Championship 2021 and 2024
Women Fitness President Ms. Namita Nayyar catches up with Silvia Contreras is an exceptionally talented Mexican Flag Football Player, winner of gold medal at The World Games 2022, here she talks about her fitness routine, her diet, and her success story.
Namita Nayyar:
Where were you born? You in 2009 started playing Flag Football while in high school. You were selected in the Mexican Flag Football team in 2018 and went on to become its captain in 2022. This later propelled your career to the height where you have been at the top of the world as a Flag Football player. Tell us more about your professional journey of exceptional hard work, tenacity, and endurance?
Silvia Contreras:
I was born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México a very small town but when I was three years old my family moved to Tijuana, a big city just across the border from San Diego.
Well I think most if not everything that I have accomplished it’s because of two main things, passion (the love that I have for this game) and discipline. When I started playing I had no idea of anything about this sport, I’ve always loved and practiced sports but not this one in particular so it was a pretty tough challenge.
At first I wasn’t that good but I enjoyed it and loved the way I could see that I was getting better through training, that’s when I fell in love with the process, not just the results. Now I can say that is what put me here and that is why I can continue doing this at the highest level and with so many sacrifices but enjoying it all the way. The support of my family has been so important also, because when I started in the national team I was already graduated, working and supposed to be entering my “normal” adult life, but they know how much I love this and the big dreams that I had so they let me chase my dreams and supported me all the way,
Namita Nayyar:
It is a dream for a Flag Football player to play in the Flag Football World Games. You won a Gold medal being part of the Mexican Team at the 2022 World Games that took place in July 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States.Tell us more about this spectacular achievement of yours?
Silvia Contreras:
Well, I feel lucky because I am living what I believe is the best moment for a flag football player, I’ve been playing this sport for 15 years and at the beginning not even me knew what this sports was about, now we have to opportunity to dream with something like The World Games and the Olympics but that was not a dream that we could ever imagined we could have in 2009. So it’s been a rollercoaster that just goes up and up for me towards dreaming.
When we heard that we´ve been invited to the world Games that was a huge achievement for the sport and the fact that TWG were going to be so important for the sport to be accepted to the Olympics put some pressure on it, but my dreams have always been big so I just got to work, individually and with my team, That gold medal was totally TEAMWORK and TEAM effort in every aspect, from our staff to the players, even the country, families and fans. It was a total dream, we enjoyed every second and I think people could see it through the screen. We put so much work, time, money, and sacrifices towards this goal and that made it extra special.
Namita Nayyar:
The 2021 IFAF Women’s Flag Football World Championships was the 10th World Championships in women’s flag football. The tournament took place in Jerusalem, Israel, from 6 to 8 December 2021. Representing the Mexican Team you won a silver medal. How does such winning honor being bestowed upon you act as a catalyst in your metriotic rise as a world leading Flag Football player?
Silvia Contreras:
That tournament was definitely very important for me as an athlete mentally because that was my second time representing Mexico on a World Championship but the first time I did badly. I was considering not coming back to try again because it was a very tough challenge for me to get over that moment and my performance. So the 3 years that went by since my first to Israel I put so much effort in every aspect I went from being just a flag football player to becoming an athlete and that help me so much with my confidence and also my performance in the field. I enjoyed the 2021
Worlds and I know a silver medal it’s a huge achievement but I wasn’t satisfied because I knew we could have had the gold medal, so the next months were crucial and we got it. Also it was from moment that I assume a role in the Mexican national team that I don’t want to give up, my position, experience and my story has been inspiring others to try and be here to so I´ve been sharing my thoughts and my process with others to see if I can help or if my road can help someone else to also achieve this dreams.
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