{"id":148084,"date":"2026-03-14T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148084"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:06:03","slug":"eagles-star-saquon-barkley-bringing-elite-youth-flag-football-tournament-to-whitehall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148084","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Star Saquon Barkley Bringing Elite Youth Flag Football Tournament to Whitehall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Eagles running back and Whitehall native&nbsp;<strong>Saquon Barkley<\/strong>&nbsp;is bringing an elite youth football event to his hometown this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Saquon Barkley Alpha Invitational<\/strong>, an invite-only&nbsp;<strong>5v5 flag football tournament<\/strong>, will take place&nbsp;<strong>June 20\u201321, 2026 at Whitehall High School<\/strong>&nbsp;and feature some of the most competitive youth teams in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted through the&nbsp;<strong>MASB Hope Foundation<\/strong>, the tournament brings together top coed and girls teams ages&nbsp;<strong>7U through high school<\/strong>&nbsp;to compete for championship rings and a bid toward the&nbsp;<strong>Flag Football Life Nationals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This event celebrates youth athletics while giving young players the opportunity to compete on the same field where Saquon grew up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key details<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 June 20\u201321, 2026<br \/>\n\u2022 Whitehall High School \u2013 Whitehall, PA<br \/>\n\u2022 Invite-only teams from across the region<br \/>\n\u2022 Championship rings for division winners<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Festival atmosphere with food trucks, vendor village and more<br \/>\n\u2022 Registration open now:&nbsp;<u><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdWecD_3JHMkki9LqSYtn61XW9RewKc56pLH8WfXewBWQIjlA\/viewform\">Saquon Barkley Alpha Invitational Entry Form<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\n&#8211;ts Brand Elevation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Eagles running back and Whitehall native&nbsp;Saquon Barkley&nbsp;is bringing an elite youth football event to his hometown this summer. The&nbsp;Saquon Barkley Alpha Invitational, an invite-only&nbsp;5v5 flag football tournament, will take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=148084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eagles Star Saquon Barkley Bringing Elite Youth Flag Football Tournament to Whitehall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Eagles Star Saquon Barkley Bringing Elite Youth Flag Football Tournament to Whitehall","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/enlight72-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}