Katie Hnida

Katharine Hnida
PositionPlacekicker
MajorPsychology
Personal information
Born: (1981-05-17) May 17, 1981
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight138 lb (63 kg)
Career history
College
High schoolChatfield (Littleton, Colorado)
Career highlights and awards
  • First woman to score in an NCAA Division I FBS football game

Katharine Anne Hnida (/ˈndə/; 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.