Katie Hnida

Katie Hnida

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 at 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.