For the first time ever, Pinckney Community High School in Michigan crowned a homecoming queen they had to summon from the locker room. Brianna Amat received the title while wearing her football uniform, complete with shoulder pads. But that wasn't the end of the 18-year-old field goal kicker's big night last Friday. She also won the game.
Amat, who maintains a 4.0 GPA and is active in student government, is the first female to make the school's varsity football squad. Link -via Breakfast Links
(Image credit: Stephen McGee for The New York Times)
A short while later, with five minutes to play in the third quarter, Amat was called to the same field to attempt a 31-yard field goal. She split the uprights.
The kick proved decisive as Pinckney held on for a 9-7 victory against a Grand Blanc team that had come into the game ranked seventh in the state in its division. It also earned Amat the nickname the Kicking Queen.
The twin accomplishments were still sinking in Monday, said Amat, a senior who has played soccer since she was 3 but who tried out for the football team only last spring, at her soccer coach’s suggestion.
“It’s just starting to hit me today,” she said in a telephone interview. “The guys were congratulating me, but without them, I wouldn’t even have gotten close” to making the kick.
Amat, who maintains a 4.0 GPA and is active in student government, is the first female to make the school's varsity football squad. Link -via Breakfast Links
(Image credit: Stephen McGee for The New York Times)
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On the way home she stopped and saved nuns and orphans from a burning building but not before performing open heart surgery on one of the kids, before pulling them all out of the house.
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Yeah, 4.0 means straight As.
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Ok I am too lazy to use the goog but is a 4.0GPA good?
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