Columbus High School Flag Football Player Alexandria Lofton Named ITG Next’s November 2024 Georgia Female Athlete of the Month
Columbus High School flag football player Alexandria Lofton is ITG Next’s November 2024 Georgia Female Athlete of the Month.
Lofton is a two-sport, standout athlete for the Blue Devils; she is the goalie for the girls soccer team and is a wide receiver and defensive back on the flag football team. She has excelled at both sports.
In addition to her goalie duties for her high school soccer team at Columbus, Lofton also plays for the Concorde Fire Premium Club soccer team. She has played with them for the past three seasons, and she has been recognized as the Best-in-Region goalkeeper for all three seasons. She has also been named to the league’s All-Regional team each year.
In flag football, Lofton has helped guide her Columbus team to a combined 38-7 record over the last two seasons and a trip to the Final Four of the GHSA playoffs in 2023.
Lofton and her Columbus teammates finished the 2024 regular season with an 18-6 record and, at the time of writing, are preparing for the state playoffs.
Lofton has racked up video-game-type stats as the team’s top wide receiver with 105 receptions for 1,795 yards and 30 touchdowns in just 20 games. (She missed four games this season.)
Earlier this year, Lofton became the first flag football player from Georgia to make the Girls Junior National Team, which represents the U.S. in international flag football competitions. Competing along with over 100 flag football athletes from around the country, Lofton won one of just 12 roster spots on the 17U team.
She then helped the team win a gold medal at the 2024 Junior International Cup.
Columbus head flag football coach Christian Grier said Lofton is truly a game changer.
“She is an unstoppable force,” Grier said. “She can do it all on the field, on offense, defense, and on special teams. She is so much fun to watch. She can also punt the football 50 yards. That’s her goalie skills at work.”
What makes all this so impressive is that Lofton has only been playing flag football for two seasons.
“She tried out for the team as a freshman, but that was the first time she had ever played football,” Grier said.
The head coach said last year was when Lofton broke out as a player.
“She had over 1,600 yards receiving last year with 69 receptions and 29 touchdowns and then just went out and shattered those numbers this year,” Grier said.
Lofton also displays many of the same traits elite athletes have, according to Grier.
“Ally will stick around after practice for another hour, working to make herself even better,” Grier said.
Congratulations to Alexandria Lofton of Columbus High School, the ITG Next Georgia Female Athlete of the Month for November 2024.
