Furthermore, football allows me to break the gender barriers of this sport. Making football history and surviving rape, are just a few things that have happened to Katie Hnida through her journey of breaking down gender barriers that still exist today in sports such as Football. In an Incident involving Katie Hnida, One night during the summer between her freshman and sophomore year when she was watching television at her teammate’s house, she says one of them, whom she considered a friend, starting kissing her and then forced himself on her and raped her. Afraid and discouraged, Katie left The University of Colorado in 2001 and kept quiet about her rape for nearly four years. On Aug. 30, 2003, Katie kicked two extra points against Texas State-San