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| Position | Placekicker |
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| Major | Psychology |
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| Born: | May 17, 1981 |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 138 lb (63 kg) |
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| High school | Chatfield (Littleton, Colorado) |
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Katharine Anne Hnida (/ˈnaɪdə/; 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.[1]
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. While at University of Colorado Boulder in 1999 she became the second woman to dress for a Division I-A game, and the first to do so for a bowl game.[2][3]
- ^ "The University of New Mexico Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on August 10, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2010. (2-2 PATs, New Mexico vs. Texas State, 8/30/03)
- ^ Reaves, Jay (August 31, 2001). "Female kicker 3-for-3 in Division I football debut". CBC sports. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ Thompson, Adam (October 17, 2000). "Denver Post". Denver Post. Retrieved November 3, 2010.