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ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 07:56 PM Mar 2012

Female kicker focused on spot with LSU

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/story/2012-03-06/female-kicker-trying-out-for-lsu-football/53391726/1

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BATON ROUGE - Morlan "Mo" Isom is not your typical homecoming queen. She is as serious about becoming a kicker on the LSU football team as a kick in the face.

Isom, a star goalkeeper on the LSU soccer team from 2008-11, became the first female student-athlete to be named LSU's homecoming queen last fall. Now she wants to be LSU's first female football player. She went through a walk-on tryout with other prospective kickers Tuesday during the Tigers' spring drills.

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***Apparently she made a 51 yard FG. Go Mo GO!
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Female kicker focused on spot with LSU (Original Post) ScreamingMeemie Mar 2012 OP
Good for her... joeybee12 Mar 2012 #1
I love the last line-her quote about her dad. ScreamingMeemie Mar 2012 #2
51 Yards?!?!? ProfessorGAC Mar 2012 #3
Coach Miles is married to a former women's basketball coach and his daughter is a champion swimmer Ex Lurker Mar 2012 #4
+ underpants Mar 2012 #5

ProfessorGAC

(65,251 posts)
3. 51 Yards?!?!?
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 12:30 PM
Mar 2012

That's pretty darned good. Geez, even when i was young i could barely kick a ball 50 yards, and by then it was hitting the ground, not 10 feed up. I also didn't always know where it was going.
GAC

Ex Lurker

(3,816 posts)
4. Coach Miles is married to a former women's basketball coach and his daughter is a champion swimmer
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 07:35 AM
Mar 2012

who may have an Olympics in her future, so he clearly understands and supports women athletes. Mo is getting a fairer shot than she would at a lot of schools.

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