TAMPA -- If they see it, they can be it.

With every snap, every hand off, every run, Dr. Jen Welter wants to change football.

Girls just want to have fun too.

“It’s confidence through football and teaching them there is no game they cannot play and no field that they don’t belong in or on,” Welter said.

Ladies have already cracked the high school and college football glass ceilings. Is the NFL next?

“When you put men and women on equal footing, it literally changes the world,” Welter said.

The Tampa Bay Bucs are at the forefront of committing a place in the game for girls. They’ve established a first-of-its-kind flag football league that will begin play this spring.

“It’s so important for us to really get these girls out here earlier, get them interested, involved and really level the playing field,” Darcie Glazer Kassewitz said.

The Bucs recently hosted more than 200 girls at a flag football clinic. The goal? Expose them to a sport they don’t normally have access to.

“They have tremendous swagger out there, they’re having a great time,” Kassewitz said. “And I think in the beginning, they were wondering, or maybe, it’s possible, that this is football, this is not my natural habitat. And now, it’s just another sport.”

A sport dominated in the Central Florida and Tampa Bay areas.

The past two years, Tampa high school teams have claimed the FHSAA Flag Football championships. Girls have conquered the high school level, bring on the next level.

Barriers have been broken in the NFL. Welter became the league’s first female coach when she was hired by the Arizona Cardinals in 2015. The visual of a female on the sideline became a vision.

“That’s so powerful because it gives you permission to see football in a new way and see yourself and what you’re capable of in another way,” she said.

That’s what she wants for this generation, so Welter continues to spread the football love for girls. The flag football initiative provides her another platform.

And for Welter, as she navigates the current of change, she wants to keep creating ripples.

“These girls get to dream of football and grow up in football and see that they have a place and a future and know that there are no limits,” Welter said, “not only in football, but also in life.”