Katie Hnida
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"Katharine Anne "Katie" Hnida" is an American football player who became the first woman to score in an National Collegiate Athletic Association/NCAA Division I-A game, college football's highest level. She accomplished this as placekicker for the University of New Mexico New Mexico Lobos/Lobos on August 30, 2003.

Hnida is the third woman to have scored in a college football game, after Liz Heaston, who played for National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics/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.

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[She also wants a sixth-year exemption from the NCAA, so she can return to the Lobos.] We have 125 great guys on this team, and I haven't had one single incident, ... That's because of the standard  Coach [Rocky] Long sets here for behavior. There's no b.s.

[She dropped out of CU after her sophomore year. She says she was depressed for two years, suffered from insomnia and gave up kicking. Her dad ached for her.] Barnett went on TV and said how these [recent recruiting party] accusations have hurt his family, ... I'll show you a hurt family.

Or that if I hadn't stopped one question short, that I would have been a lot more sensitive about my remarks and sensitive to how they would play out.

May have been drugged.

It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful. ... Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible.

I don't mind when they burp and spit around me, ... It tells me they think of me as their teammate.