Haley Van Voorhis played one snap at safety for Shenandoah University on Saturday, becoming the first woman who was not a kicker or punter to appear in an NCAA game.
Up in the stands at Shentel Stadium, university president Tracy Fitzsimmons sat among several hundred waterlogged spectators. Still, she was both soaked and smiling broadly at halftime, clearly thrilled to see Van Voorhis enter the game minutes earlier.
Van Voorhis has been playing against the boys since she joined a coed flag football team in fifth grade. She was the only girl on that team, and she has continued playing a game she has loved from the first day she stepped between the lines. Her head coach at Shenandoah, Scott Yoder, has been impressed with Van Voorhis and said he has no qualms about playing her.
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