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Katharine Anne Hnida (/ ˈ n aɪ d ə /; born May 17, 1981) 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. She accomplished this as placekicker for the University of New Mexico Lobos on August 30, 2003.
Prior to this game, female athletes at Duke and Louisville had come close to playing in a game but did not. [6] In 2001, Ashley Martin became the second female athlete to score in a college football game, this time in the NCAA. In 2003, Katie Hnida became the first female athlete to score in a Division I-A bowl game.
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 ...
Katie Hnida, a college football pioneer, has fallen seriously ill and has medical bills totaling over $155,000.
The 2002 SEGA Sports Las Vegas Bowl was the 11th edition of the annual college football bowl game. It featured the New Mexico Lobos and the UCLA Bruins. The Bruins defeated the Lobos, 27–13. Notably, the game was the first Division I-A college football game to have a female player on the field, Katie Hnida.
2001: Ashley Martin, kicking for Jacksonville State, became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-AA game. 2003: Katie Hnida kicked a pair of extra points for NCAA Division I-A New Mexico ...
Hnida was the first woman to score points at the top level of college football in 2003 after Ashley Martin was the first woman to score points in an FCS game when she kicked three extra points for ...
Prior to this game, female athletes at Duke and Louisville had come close to playing in a game but did not. [4] In 1997, Liz Heaston became the first female athlete to score in a college football game. In 2003, Katie Hnida became the first female athlete to score in a Division I-A bowl game.