Jacksonville State Gamecocks – No. 89 | |
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Position | Kicker |
Personal information | |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Weight | 160 lb (73 kg) |
Career history | |
High school | Sharpsburg (GA) East Coweta |
Ashley Martin (born c. 1981) is an American athlete who became the first woman to play and score in an NCAA Division I American football game, and one of the first ever to score points in any college football game. She accomplished this feat August 30, 2001, as a placekicker for the Jacksonville State University Gamecocks, where she also played on the women's soccer team. Martin played at Division I-AA (now known as the Football Championship Subdivision). The only earlier female player to score in a college football game was Liz Heaston, who kicked for Willamette University, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school, in 1997.