Katie Hnida
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| New Mexico Lobos No. 2 | |
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| Position | Placekicker |
| Class | Class of 2004 |
| Major | Psychology |
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| High school | Chatfield Senior |
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| Date of birth | May 17, 1981 |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 138 lb (63 kg) |
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Katharine Anne "Katie" Hnida (born May 17, 1981) is an 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.
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.
Hnida (pronounced without the H) grew up in Littleton, Colorado. She attended Chatfield Senior High School near Littleton, where she was a member of the football team. She went 3 for 3 in field goal attempts, and 27 for 28 in extra point attempts in her senior year. She was a member of the varsity team and named one of America's "20 most influential teens" by Teen People magazine.Rick Reilly wrote a "Life of Reilly" column about her.
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