TexasTerror
December 8th, 2006, 04:09 PM
This is a name that I'm sure most of you recall, Katie Hnida. She booted the first points on the board for a female kicker in Division I football history when she scored in the famed rout of Southwest Texas in their final game to be known as Southwest Texas (before the name change went into effect a day later to Texas State University - San Marcos) as New Mexico rolled the 'Cats...
Hnida just wrote a book about becoming the first woman to score in NCAA Division I football as well as her struggles both in high school and at the University of Colorado.
According to the AP article that came across the wire, the prologue is dedicated to how she felt making that kick. "The most uplifting part of her 277-page book -- a good portion of which is devoted to the pain and harassment she endured at CU -- might very well be the prologue, where she describes how she felt after kicking an extra point for the Lobos to become the first woman to score in a Division I game."
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743289773.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39330608_.jpg
It took just 1.28 seconds to make history.
On August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman ever to play and score in NCAA Division I football. The struggle to get to that groundbreaking moment took eight long years, a journey filled with dogged commitment, horrifying setbacks, and finally, remarkable triumph.
Fate came knocking for the 14-year-old Hnida in the unlikely form of a torn thigh muscle -- an injury that would drive her off the soccer field in search of another outlet for her athletic talent. She found football and with it gender-defying success. The same day Hnida's high school classmates voted her homecoming queen, she donned her helmet and pads and kicked six extra points in the homecoming game.
When she is recruited to play for the University of Colorado Buffaloes, her great dream is realized, and she seems set for glory on a much larger stage. But upon arriving in Boulder, she begins a tour of hell inside the University of Colorado's football program, a hell that culminates in Hnida being raped by a teammate. It is here that the story truly begins.
Katie is physically and emotionally devastated. She leaves the university and begins climbing her way back to who she was and what she wanted. She learns to speak about what happened to her and to push through harrowing flashbacks of violence. The very thing that drew her into the darkest days of her life will ultimately save her: football.
She sends 80 kicking tapes to 80 Division I schools and is invited to visit several top football programs. But it is the blue-collar, no-nonsense team that wins her trust: the University of New Mexico Lobos. Under head coach Rocky Long, Hnida continues her long road to recovery through hard work and the will to never give up. She is not only accepted by her teammates, she also finds herself part of a team that's a family.
In Albuquerque, Hnida is reunited with her dream. Under a true leader, she blossoms. Her teammates are teammates, supporting and encouraging her to reach her goal. And with just seven minutes and 20 seconds to go in a game against Southwest Texas, the history-making extra point kick is made in under two seconds, changing everyone's ideas about what is possible.
http://www.amazon.com/Still-Kicking-Dramatic-Division-Football/dp/0743289773/sr=8-1/qid=1165611811/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1541087-6943009?ie=UTF8&s=books
Hnida just wrote a book about becoming the first woman to score in NCAA Division I football as well as her struggles both in high school and at the University of Colorado.
According to the AP article that came across the wire, the prologue is dedicated to how she felt making that kick. "The most uplifting part of her 277-page book -- a good portion of which is devoted to the pain and harassment she endured at CU -- might very well be the prologue, where she describes how she felt after kicking an extra point for the Lobos to become the first woman to score in a Division I game."
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743289773.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V39330608_.jpg
It took just 1.28 seconds to make history.
On August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman ever to play and score in NCAA Division I football. The struggle to get to that groundbreaking moment took eight long years, a journey filled with dogged commitment, horrifying setbacks, and finally, remarkable triumph.
Fate came knocking for the 14-year-old Hnida in the unlikely form of a torn thigh muscle -- an injury that would drive her off the soccer field in search of another outlet for her athletic talent. She found football and with it gender-defying success. The same day Hnida's high school classmates voted her homecoming queen, she donned her helmet and pads and kicked six extra points in the homecoming game.
When she is recruited to play for the University of Colorado Buffaloes, her great dream is realized, and she seems set for glory on a much larger stage. But upon arriving in Boulder, she begins a tour of hell inside the University of Colorado's football program, a hell that culminates in Hnida being raped by a teammate. It is here that the story truly begins.
Katie is physically and emotionally devastated. She leaves the university and begins climbing her way back to who she was and what she wanted. She learns to speak about what happened to her and to push through harrowing flashbacks of violence. The very thing that drew her into the darkest days of her life will ultimately save her: football.
She sends 80 kicking tapes to 80 Division I schools and is invited to visit several top football programs. But it is the blue-collar, no-nonsense team that wins her trust: the University of New Mexico Lobos. Under head coach Rocky Long, Hnida continues her long road to recovery through hard work and the will to never give up. She is not only accepted by her teammates, she also finds herself part of a team that's a family.
In Albuquerque, Hnida is reunited with her dream. Under a true leader, she blossoms. Her teammates are teammates, supporting and encouraging her to reach her goal. And with just seven minutes and 20 seconds to go in a game against Southwest Texas, the history-making extra point kick is made in under two seconds, changing everyone's ideas about what is possible.
http://www.amazon.com/Still-Kicking-Dramatic-Division-Football/dp/0743289773/sr=8-1/qid=1165611811/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1541087-6943009?ie=UTF8&s=books