1. Katharine Anne Hnida is a former American football player who became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A game, college football's highest level.
16 Facts About Katie Hnida
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Katie Hnida accomplished this as placekicker for the University of New Mexico Lobos on August 30,2003.
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Katie Hnida is the third woman to have scored in a college football game, after Liz Heaston, who played for NAIA Willamette University in 1997, and Ashley Martin, who played for NCAA Division I-AA Jacksonville State University in 2001.
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Katie Hnida attended Chatfield Senior High School near Littleton, where she was a member of the football team.
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Katie Hnida went 3 for 3 in field goal attempts, and 27 for 28 in extra point attempts in her senior year.
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Katie Hnida was a member of the varsity team and named one of America's "20 most influential teens" by Teen People magazine.
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Katie Hnida never saw playing time at Colorado, though she did suit up for games, becoming the second woman to do so in Division I football, and the first to do so in a bowl game, when Colorado went to the 1999 Insight.
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In 2000, after falling ill with mononucleosis and tonsillitis, Katie Hnida was unable to compete for a roster spot.
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Katie Hnida left Colorado in 2001 and eventually transferred to the University of New Mexico the following year.
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Katie Hnida was one of several women who reported being assaulted by members or recruits of the Colorado football team during this time.
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Katie Hnida commonly speaks at colleges and universities to educate and raise awareness about assault.
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Katie Hnida has worked with many organizations that help victims of assault, including The Joyful Heart Foundation and the Voices and Faces Project.
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Katie Hnida's father, Dave, is a physician and the medical reporter for the CBS affiliate in Denver.
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In 2006, Katie Hnida wrote a book about her experiences, titled Still Kicking: My Journey as the First Woman to Play Division One College Football.
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In 2010, Katie Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League.
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The league's first female player, and only the second female professional football player in history, Katie Hnida played in the first three games of the team's season but was released later that year after developing a blood clot in her kicking leg.