Katie Hnida

Katharine Hnida
New Mexico Lobos – No. 2
Position	Placekicker
Class	Class of 2004
Major	Psychology
Personal information
Born:	May 17, 1981
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	138 lb (63 kg)
Career history
College	Colorado (1999); New Mexico (2002–2004);
Bowl games	1999 Insight.com Bowl; 2002 Las Vegas Bowl; 2003 Las Vegas Bowl; 2004 Emerald Bowl;
High school	Chatfield (Littleton, Colorado)
Career highlights and awards
	First woman to score in an NCAA Division I FBS football game;

Katharine Anne Hnida (/ˈnaɪdə/; born May 17, 1981) is a former 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.

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