Haley Van Voorhis, a safety at Division-III Shenandoah University, came on in the first quarter and registered a quarterback hurry on third down.
Haley Van Voorhis, a safety at Division-III Shenandoah University, became the first female non-kicker to appear in an NCAA football game on Saturday against Juniata.A 5-foot-6, 145-pound junior, Voorhis spent the last two seasons playing on junior varsity. The Plains, Virginia, native went to high school at Christchurch and was 2019 All-State Honorable Mention. Her senior season was cancelled due to COVID-19.
Multiple women have played kicking positions in college football. In 2003, Kirst Hinda became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football game as the placekicker at New Mexico. Seventeen years later, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score in a Power 5 football game as the kicker at Vanderbilt.
In an interview with ESPN in 2021, Voorhis said she's used to people pointing out that she's the only girl playing football, whether it was during Pop Warner or high school. "There's definitely people out there who see the story and think, 'This girl's going to get hurt,'" she said."I hear that a lot. Or, 'She's too small, doesn't weigh enough, not tall enough.' But I'm not the shortest on my team, and I'm not the lightest.
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