While that may be a long-shot wish, she is going to be the first woman — other than a kicker — who will attend college on a full football scholarship. Harris, 22, signed a letter of intent this week with Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, to play at the NAIA school.

“I always try to push myself every single day and keep my faith in God to let me go as far as I want to go,” she said earlier this month before Toyota aired an advertisement about her during the Super Bowl.

 

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The ad focused on how people underestimate her as a player.

“I’ve never been a big fan of assumptions,” she says in the spot.

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