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After high school, Hnida enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder. Due to her success in high school football, she was invited to join the Colorado Buffaloes football team as a walk-on freshman placekicker by then coach Rick Neuheisel. [6] [7] Neuheisel left Colorado in 1998, but his replacement Gary Barnett kept the walk-on offer open. [6]
Gary Lee Barnett (born May 23, 1946) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Fort Lewis College (1982–1983), Northwestern University (1992–1998), and the University of Colorado at Boulder (1999–2005), compiling a career college football record of 92–94–2.
Barnett had survived a recruiting scandal and a suspension following derogatory remarks about a female kicker, Katie Hnida, who claimed she was raped by a teammate in 2000. But the losses to Miami, Iowa State, Nebraska and the second Texas drubbing ultimately led to his forced resignation. [ 1 ]
Katie Hnida was the first woman to score a point in a Division I-A game for New Mexico in 2003. And Heather Mercer was a member of the Duke football team in the mid 1990s.
Katie Hnida, a college football pioneer, has fallen seriously ill and has medical bills totaling over $155,000.
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Katie Hnida – First woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football game on August 30, 2003, as a placekicker for the University of New Mexico, kicking two points against Texas State University. [7] [50] Also the first woman to appear in a bowl game, at the 2002 Las Vegas Bowl against UCLA, during which her extra point attempt was blocked. [7 ...
In 2002, University of New Mexico kicker Kate Hnida became the first female to play in an NCAA Division I game. And in 2020, Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller became the first woman to both play in and ...