Kicking their way to history: West Branch duo making impact on football team
BELOIT, Ohio (WYTV) – It’s been a busy fall for two West Branch girls soccer players. Gillian Koneval and Olivia McLean are both senior...
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Sasha Santiago
Oct 1, 20182 min read
Watch for Her on the NFL Sidelines
Jennifer King knows she has to study twice as hard. Even before she became the Carolina Panthers’ first female coaching intern, she pored...
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Sasha Santiago
Jul 26, 20182 min read
Georgetown’s Sheldon seeking football championship
Competing for a national championship is difficult enough. Doing it in a sport you didn’t pick up until adulthood is even more...
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Sasha Santiago
Jan 22, 20182 min read
Safety Antoinette ‘Toni’ Harris might be the 2nd woman to ever earn a college football scholarship
Antoinette “Toni” Harris may have just become the first woman ever in college football to receive a football scholarship. Harris, a...
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Sasha Santiago
Jan 2, 20182 min read
Blitz Champz Wants To Score a Touchdown with Sporty Black Girl Nerds
Adrienne Smith proves that Black Girl Nerds also come in elite athlete edition. The Boston Renegades receiver is an entrepreneur,...
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Sasha Santiago
Oct 10, 20173 min read
Football: “The Gridiron Girls”
Fans at Palestine Junior High football games can’t help but notice the long ponytails that two of the players are sporting below their...
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Sasha Santiago
Oct 3, 20173 min read
Female linebacker makes history for Boca Raton in victory
In the last minute of Boca Raton’s 14-6 win over Spanish River Monday night, coach Eric Davis sent his newest player into the game. Her...
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Sasha Santiago
Oct 3, 20174 min read
Newark girls tackle football and one of them makes histor
Deanna Guzman was looking to have a memorable senior year at Newark Collegiate Academy. No girl had ever made the school’s football team....
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Sasha Santiago
Oct 1, 20173 min read
Meet Tess, Medford High’s only female football player
Medford Tech senior Tess Mauro just joined the varsity football team as the only female player. Though Tess Mauro always loved football,...
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Sasha Santiago
Sep 19, 20172 min read
Famed Utah teen sues, pursues girls high school football
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Five years after Sam Gordon’s video of her football talents playing against boys won her an invitation to see the...
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Sasha Santiago
Sep 5, 20173 min read
Millikan’s Chloe Robinson makes history as first female player to score point for Rams
Charles de Rosier snapped it, Zach Martin held it, and Chloe Robinson kicked it. On any other night, with any other kicker, it would have...
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Sasha Santiago
Jun 14, 20172 min read
Opelousas pediatrician repeats as All-American player
What’s a 49-year-old pediatrician doing playing football in a league where women hit and tackle just like the men? She’s having the time...
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Sasha Santiago
Jun 8, 20171 min read
Bills hire female British football player Phoebe Schecter as coaching intern
The Buffalo Bills tapped a British football player and coach as one their interns for training camp. The hiring of Phoebe Schecter, a...
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Sasha Santiago
May 30, 20171 min read
Lifelong Jets fan Collette Smith hired as team’s first female coach
Collette Smith has been a Jets fan her entire life. Now, she will be one of the team’s coaches. The Jets will name Smith, 44, as the...
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Sasha Santiago
May 9, 20173 min read
As the story of girl football player, ‘Tight End’ drops the ball
Here’s a true story: At age 14, Tami Maida earned a roster spot on her high school football team in Oregon. She played quarterback and...
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Sasha Santiago
Apr 13, 20172 min read
Female kicker makes college football history with scholarship
Becca Longo isn’t the first woman to play football. But the senior at Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona, made history when she...
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Sasha Santiago
Mar 15, 20173 min read
Playing football like a girl
Wantagh, Seaford and Levittown residents might have noticed the brown ponytail sticking out of a Salk Middle School seventh-grade...
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Sasha Santiago
Feb 8, 20176 min read
Katie Hnida Shares Her Story of Making Football History and Surviving Rape
This story is part of Teen Vogue’s Girls in the Game series with Jessica Luther, which examines the role that gender plays in football...
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Sasha Santiago
Dec 18, 20161 min read
Female HS football player from Compton selected for all-star game
A senior at Compton’s Centennial High School is having quite a year: all-star in football, class president, 4.3 GPA. And Eriana Pula is...
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Sasha Santiago
Dec 5, 20161 min read
Terrell’s Cuff first female named GISA All-State football
Terrell Academy’s 2016 football season is one that won’t soon be forgotten. The Eagles reached the state semifinals, and just had five...
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