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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 2002, University of New Mexico kicker Kate Hnida became the first female to play in an NCAA Division I game. And in 2020, Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller became the first woman to both play in and ...
Elizabeth Heaston Thompson (born 1977) is an American athlete who is the first woman ever to score in a college football game. She accomplished this feat on October 18, 1997 as a placekicker for the Willamette Bearcats football team of Willamette University, which then competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for small colleges. [2]
Gordon has appeared on Good Morning America, tackled Marshall Faulk on the set of the NFL Network, huddled up with the San Francisco 49ers at practice, and gained the attention and praise of U.S. soccer stars Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm. 49ers running back LaMichael James and former NFL player, Super Bowl MVP, and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard both jokingly stated that she should win the ...
Shenandoah won the game, 48-7.. Previously, the history of women in college football was limited to placekicking. Vanderbilt soccer player Sarah Fuller famously became the first woman to appear in ...
Pekin kicker Mylee Hansen will be the first female to play football at Monmouth College, an NCAA Division III school in Illinois. She also will play soccer. Female kicker from Pekin makes history ...
Haley Van Voorhis (born 2003) [1] is an American football player for Shenandoah University. She is one of the first women to play a position other than kicker in an NCAA football game, at any level. [2] [3] She accomplished this as a safety for the Shenandoah University Hornets on September 23, 2023. [4] [5]
Bella Rasmussen of Laguna Beach reflects on her journey to becoming the first girl in California to score two touchdowns in a game for high-school varsity football.