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Firehawks To Open Season; Female Kicker Ready To Contribute

By Dean Pantazi
June 21, 2010 Updated Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM EDT

FORT WAYNE (Indiana's NewsCenter) - The Fort Wayne FireHawks will open their first season Friday night against Cincinnati at the Memorial Coliseum, and they will have something no other Continental Indoor Football League team has, a female kicker.

Katie Hnida will handle field goals and extra points, something she was the first woman to do in a major college football game.

She says the smaller CIFL goalposts will not be a problem.

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