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My Dramatic Journey As the First Woman to Play Division One College Football
Scribner
November 2006
On Sale: November 29, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0743289773
EAN: 9780743289771
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
On August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman ever
to play and score in NCAA Division I football. The struggle
to get to that groundbreaking moment took eight long years,
a journey filled with dogged commitment, horrifying
setbacks, and finally, remarkable triumph. Fate came knocking for the 14-year-old Hnida in the unlikely
form of a torn thigh muscle -- an injury that would drive
her off the soccer field in search of another outlet for her
athletic talent. She found football and with it
gender-defying success. The same day Hnida's high school
classmates voted her homecoming queen, she donned her helmet
and pads and kicked six extra points in the homecoming game. When she is recruited to play for the University of Colorado
Buffaloes, her great dream is realized, and she seems set
for glory on a much larger stage. But upon arriving in
Boulder, she begins a tour of hell inside the University of
Colorado's football program, a hell that culminates in Hnida
being raped by a teammate. It is here that the story truly
begins. Katie is physically and emotionally devastated. She leaves
the university and begins climbing her way back to who she
was and what she wanted. She learns to speak about what
happened to her and to push through harrowing flashbacks of
violence. The very thing that drew her into the darkest days
of her life will ultimately save her: football. She sends 80 kicking tapes to 80 Division I schools and is
invited to visit several top football programs. But it is
the blue-collar, no-nonsense team that wins her trust: the
University of New Mexico Lobos. Under head coach Rocky Long,
Hnida continues her long road to recovery through hard work
and the will to never give up. She is not only accepted by
her teammates, she also finds herself part of a team that's
a family. In Albuquerque, Hnida is reunited with her dream. Under a
true leader, she blossoms. Her teammates are teammates,
supporting and encouraging her to reach her goal. And with
just seven minutes and 20 seconds to go in a game against
Southwest Texas, the history-making extra point kick is made
in under two seconds, changing everyone's ideas about what
is possible.
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