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Lily Godwin – First female player in NCAA history to record a solo tackle, as a LB for the University of Puget Sound Loggers, a D3 school. [63] Sam Gordon – Running back, Salt Lake City. Her play in a youth football league [64] led to her becoming the first female football player featured on a Wheaties box. [65]
In 2019, she became the first female official to officiate an NFL playoff game in an AFC divisional round between Los Angeles Chargers at New England Patriots. [39] She worked NFC divisional games in 2020 and 2021, [38] and was the down judge for Super Bowl LV. In 2021, line judge Maia Chaka became the NFL's second full-time female on-field ...
Thomas was the first woman to officiate a major college football game, the first to officiate a bowl game, and the first to officiate in a Big Ten stadium. On April 8, 2015, Thomas was hired as the first full-time female official in NFL history, [note 1] and for the 2020 NFL season, she was on the officiating crew headed by referee Shawn ...
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2024: Exclusive Interview: Ahead of International Women’s Day, Sonia Twigg takes a look at the rise of female officials in men’s football and speaks to Natalie ...
Football Offensive tackle for University of Michigan, and in the NFL for the Tennessee Titans (1996–99), Philadelphia Eagles (2000–08), and San Diego Chargers (2009) NJ: U.S. Representative: 2011–2015 Republican: Ed Rutkowski: Football Wide receiver and later quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League, 1963–68 NY
A Mexican American woman has become the first female kicker at Jackson State University, a NCAA Division I Historically Black College and University. Leilani Armenta told CNN she was nervous when ...
Intercollegiate sports began in the United States in 1852 when crews from Harvard and Yale universities met in a challenge race in the sport of rowing. [13] As rowing remained the preeminent sport in the country into the late-1800s, many of the initial debates about collegiate athletic eligibility and purpose were settled through organizations like the Rowing Association of American Colleges ...
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump's Department of Education wants the National Collegiate Athletic Association to restore records and awards for female athletes. The U.S. Department ...