Katharine Anne Hnida is a former American football player who became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A game. She 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 play for NCAA DivisionI-AA Jacksonville State University in 2001.
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Katharine Anne Hnida is a former American football player who became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A game. She accomplished this as placekicker for the University of New Mexico Lobos on August 30, 2003. She 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 play for NCAA DivisionI-AA Jacksonville State University in 2001. She was one of several women who reported being assaulted by members or recruits of the Colorado football team during this time.
In 2010, she became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League. She became gravely ill after an adverse reaction to an antibiotic sent her into multiple organ failure; her kidneys and liver quit functioning, resulting in admission to intensive care unit and emergency dialysis. In 2018, she was released from intensive care after developing a blood clot in her kicking leg.
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