This past gameday weekend history was made when Haley Van Voorhis, a track and sprint-runner for the Division-III school Shenandoah University, got gametime action during a football game against Juniata, making her the first non-kicker to play a collegiate football game.
Van Voorhis’ limited time on the field received plenty of mainstream press, such as NBC’s Today, where she played safety and got in during first quarter with Shenandoah already up 26 points and was accredited with a quarterback hurry on third down.
It’s an amazing thing. I just wanted to get out and do my thing. I want to show other people this is what women can do, to show what I can do. It’s a big moment. I made the impossible possible, and I’m excited about that.
Van Voorhis said after the game, according to The Washington Post.
ESPN reported, ‘A 5-foot-6, 145-pound junior, Van Voorhis spent the past two seasons playing on junior varsity. The Plains, Virginia, native went to high school at Christchurch and was a 2019 all-state honorable mention. Her senior season was canceled because of COVID-19.’
Shenandoah football coach Scott Yoder told NPR in a statement, “She has been working hard and it’s great to see her take advantage of the opportunity she has earned.”
Shenandoah University president Tracy Fitzsimmons views this move as an inspiring feat:
What makes this particularly exciting is that Haley’s accomplishment is not just a well-earned personal achievement, but also a victory for all women and girls.
ESPN added, ‘Multiple women have played kicking positions in college football. In 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football game as the place-kicker at New Mexico. Seventeen years later, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score in a Power 5 football game as the kicker for Vanderbilt.’
Sarah Fuller, which received a barrage of airtime in 2020, became the first woman to kickoff the second half of game for Vanderbilt, after already losing by three touchdowns, and then later kicked a point-after-touchdown later in the season.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Wowsers, look at that progress, baby! My middle-school football team looked more imposing than these people, and had more of a crowd than these teams could ever dream of. But apparently this game played out on the sandlot is “a victory for all women and girls.” Please, stop, I can’t stop laughing! Oh, and if you that watch clip, that was clearly ‘roughing the passing’ if there ever was, even though that hit she gave looked like she was playing patty-cake.
Everything is so out of whack. Biological males can go play with the girls and shatter every single record by leaps and bounds, even though they were below-average when stacked-up with the males: and the girls can chase field for a couple of seconds and get all the admiration in the world.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James 3:16
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 1 Timothy 5:14
God did not appoint women to play sports that also applies for men.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Titus 2:11-12
noticed you were wearing the blue light glasses on rumble, where did you buy yours? and did you use UV light technique to test them out or something else?
I got them a couple of years ago from BluBlocks, but now they are called Bon Charge. There are plenty of other companies out there, too.
1Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.