The first girl to join her middle school's football team is already considered to be one of the 'best lineman' the team has, according to one coach.
Two young women are making history at a middle school in Oxford, Miss. The first is Aniah Echols, a seventh-grader at Oxford Middle School , who has become the first female to join the Oxford Chargers. Already her head coach considers her to be one of the team's best lineman. The second is Megan Wolfe, an English teacher at the school and a current member of the defensive line for the Mississippi Lady Panthers, who will serve as the school's first female assistant coach.
"It's a sport that I grew up playing since I was like four or five, but I was never really accepted on the school team. So, I would just play with my brother and my cousins," Aniah told the Clarion Ledger."I think it's pretty cool that they allow me as a girl and [a person of] my color to play. At my other school they were like, 'Heck no.'"
“I have eight boy cousins that played football all the time, so I wanted to play, too. But my grandmother wouldn’t let us tackle, so this is a little different,” Aniah said in a statement from the school. “Once I got my first good hit, I thought, ‘Hey, this isn’t that bad.’” "We have a team of 40 brothers and one sister," head coach Hardwick said."We look out for our sister, and our sister has 40 brothers if there is a problem."
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