During the game, Ashley Martin became the first woman to play and score in a NCAA football game and the second woman to play and score in a college game in any division.
The only earlier female player to score in a college football game was Liz Heaston, who kicked for Willamette University, an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school, in 1997.
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Liz Heaston had previously kicked two extra points for NAIA Willamette University on October 18, 1997 in a game against Linfield College.
The university's football team gained national attention in 2001 when Junior placekicker Ashley Martin became the first female football player to score a point in a Division I game tallying 3 points against Cumberland University.
August 30, 2001: Ashley Martin kicks two PAT's in Jacksonville States's 72-10 win over Cumberland University to become the first female to play and score in an NCAA football game.
Ashley Martin, the first female to score in an NCAA game, and the first to score in a Division I game
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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.