Katie Hnida
| Position | Placekicker |
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| Major | Psychology |
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| Born: | May 17, 1981 |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 138 lb (63 kg) |
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| High school | Chatfield (Littleton, Colorado) |
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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.