[Recovering_Democrat]

Good for her.

[hole_n_one]

Katie Hnida

[staytrue]

It is also good for men's athletics at NM. Under title IX, when 100 men play for the football team, the school must either find 100 women to play at something else, even if it is tiddlywinks or beer chugging, or alternatively, they must find 100 men to kick off the wrestling, golf, tennis or other teams, or some combination of both.

By playing on the football team, she opens up a spot on some other men's team. This may be the future, where you have a lot of women on the football team, taking up space just so some men can play on the golf or swimming teams.

[strela]

Hnida, a 5-10, 140-pound senior, made her first kick with 5:05 left after Hank Baskett's touchdown catch. With her long blond hair protruding from the back of her helmet, Hnida split the uprights to make the score 65-8, then waved her hands in the air.

She's apparently not the first-string kicker then.

At least she's getting garbage time - some players don't even get that.

[Robert A Cook PE]

???

I was at the Div I game at Jacksonville State Univ. in Jacksonville AL two years ago when a girl scored the first time.

Granted, this one is a little prettier .... But this is old news.

Unless she can tackle the kickoff returner when he breaks thru everybody else.

[#3Fan]

I don't care if a kicker plays a "support" position, it's still combat!

(Women in the military humor about the cavemen)

[Gunrunner2]

Kind of ironic that the school they beat (Texas State, used to be Southwest Texas State), was in a movie called "Unncessary Rougness," and in this movie they had a female place-kicker and the school was called "Texas State."

Just odd.

[deport]

It's a pity she couldn't have kicked a couple of the 'Texas rats butts' back across the state line......

[yarddog]

This is pretty much a non-story except for it being the first. The PAT is way over 90% successful and it requires precision rather than power.

Interestingly I recall a girl at a Georgia High School a year or two ago who kicked extra points. She was also blond and was named prettiest girl at that school. I think she was also a soccer player.