New Mexico female place kicker, claims to have been raped by a teammate

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when she was at Colorado..


"If you thought Colorado football recruiting parties were jailbreaks, brace yourself for the allegations made by the only woman ever to play on the team.

As a CU placekicker in 1999, Katie Hnida says she endured a kind of sexual hell you can't imagine. After being verbally abused and molested by teammates, Hnida says, she was raped by one of them.

An honor-roll student, a homecoming queen and an honorable mention all-county kicker at Littleton (Colo.) Chatfield High, Hnida (NYE-da) had dreamed of booting for Colorado. "Football is what makes me breathe," she says. Then-coach Rick Neuheisel invited her to walk on, she accepted and then he took off, leaving her in new coach Gary Barnett's hands. "None of the players wanted her on the team," Barnett remembers. "Basically we were doing her a favor."

On her first day of practice Hnida found out how welcome she was. She says five teammates surrounded her and verbally abused her, making sexually graphic comments. During the season players exposed themselves to her "at least five times," she says. "They'd go, 'Hey, Katie, check this out!'" One player came up from behind, she says, and rubbed his erect penis against her.

Sometimes when the entire team was huddled up, Hnida says, players stuck their hands on her crotch or groped her breasts under her shoulder pads. "She endured more abuse than one person should have to bear," former teammate Justin Bates says. Even as she practiced, players called her vulgar names and one fired footballs at her head.

Why didn't she tell Barnett? "Because I was terrified," she says. "He didn't want me around in the first place. I thought for sure he'd kick me off [the team]."

The worst was yet to come. One summer night Hnida was watching TV at the house of a teammate. "He just starts to kiss me," she recalls. "I told him, 'That's not O.K.' Next thing I know he's on top of me. I told him, 'No!' But he just kept going, 'Shhhhh.' I tried to push him off me, but he outweighed me by 100 pounds." Hnida says he lifted her skirt, pushed aside her panties and penetrated her. She was a virgin. The phone rang, he reached for it, she slipped out from under him and ran.

Why didn't she go to the police? "I was so scared of what he might do to me," she says. "And I didn't want a huge media mess. I was already carrying around so much inside me, I was numb."

Just before the start of the 2000 season, it was clear that Hnida, sick with tonsillitis, was not going to make the roster. She says she fell into "the darkest of dark places."

Worried for his daughter after she had finally told him about some of her hell (but not the rape), Maj. Dave Hnida, an Army surgeon currently stationed in Iraq, went to athletic director Dick Tharp and Barnett about "the cornering, the groping, the name-calling and the football-at-the-head thing," Katie's father says. He got nowhere. "Talking to Barnett was like talking to a wall."

Neither Tharp nor Barnett recalls Dave Hnida saying anything about sexual harassment. "If I'd have heard that, I'd have jumped down somebody's throat," Barnett says. "Not one time did I ever see or hear about anybody treating her wrong. I don't believe she was sexually harassed. I don't believe our players would do that. They'd be in too much trouble with me." Barnett says he gave one player a "tongue-lashing" for making a vulgar comment to Katie.

She dropped out of CU after her sophomore year. She says she was depressed for two years, suffered from insomnia and gave up kicking. Her dad ached for her. "Barnett went on TV and said how these [recent recruiting party] accusations have hurt his family," Dave Hnida says. "I'll show you a hurt family."

Katie went into therapy, enrolled at a junior college and then had the guts to walk on at New Mexico in 2002. Last August she became the first woman to score in Division I football history when she kicked two PATs in the Lobos' 72-8 rout of Texas State-San Marcos.

Meanwhile, three other women alleged they were raped by players or recruits at or following a Colorado football recruiting party in 2001 (click here for full story). There have been reports of players hiring strippers for recruits as recently as last month.

So why is Hnida, 22, telling her story now? "Because all the news sent me back into that nightmare," she says. "It made me literally sick. I realized that until I tell my story, I can never heal."

Hnida isn't suing Colorado or pressing charges against former teammates. "I just want to see changes made there," she says.

She also wants a sixth-year exemption from the NCAA, so she can return to the Lobos. "We have 125 great guys on this team, and I haven't had one single incident," Hnida says. "That's because of the standard Coach [Rocky] Long sets here for behavior. There's no b.s."

At Colorado they're majoring in b.s. The denials have piled up like cordwood. You show me a coach who maintains he's unaware of recruiting parties featuring paid strippers, of four alleged rapes, of sexual harassment claims by one of his players against other players, and I'll show you a coach who is hell-bent on not knowing.

Makes this alum want to hide his class ring.
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No one saw this one coming.....
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Interesting story to read about. Boys will be boys. Even Manning stuck his azz in a girls face in humor. Not correct, but we all most likely did some "not so correct" things as well.
 

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everyone makes stupid choices. correct me if im wrong,. but are you saying rape is a boys will be boys thing ?
 

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No, I am not pro rape.
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The rape is at best an allegation as is all of this. The little games they played were just immaturity.
 

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Manning has thrown 6 ints last 6 qtrs, and now we find out he is a dirtbag on top of it. Im not real suprised
 

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what does lander think, and how does this compare to the whole C.Columbus deal?
 

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i am against the rape also. but wow i just saw footage of this girl on the news and holy crap is she HOT!! what an ass this young lady has, I mean you must of figured she had one. . .but damn , the whole package on this chic is just delicious. ill put one through her uprights anytime she wants!!
 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by RobFunk:
what does lander think, and how does this compare to the whole C.Columbus deal?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Unlike you, I don't find humor in a woman being "allegedly" raped. I wish she would press charges, so a fair trial and punishment (if guilty) can be had.
 

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i dont understand why she hasnt gone to the police but shes making it public?! very confusing. usually it is public because she did go to the police.
 

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Rob,
Maybe she's afraid of a Kobe-like circus? They say the trial can be as painful as the crime, but I really don't know.

I agree though, if he did it then let him pay, otherwise I don't see the point of going to the media.
 

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there should be a sign at all the borders in colorado saying "welcome to colorado...if you are female, your chances of being raped by an athelete have just increased substantially".
 

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Bullshit---she deserved it. Go play where you belong ie) your own league or the kitchen.

This makes me sick, men cant go play womens sports,so why can chicks play guys?

Theo Fleury is small and woman like so why cant he go play in a girls league?


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are you saying she deserved to get raped or she deserved to get made fun of and have footballs thrown at her head?
 

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No Woman ever deserves to be raped.

So I was obviosly talking about the footballs at her head!
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Shit's hitting the fan.....Barnett may be gone.

CU To Make Announcement Today About Football Program
CU's president is lashing out at head coach Gary Barnett after he made comments about Katie Hnida, calling her an awful kicker. He made that statement just hours after she revealed publicly that she had been raped by a teammate.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2855010/detail.html
 

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if you cant get your player skills in gear to get what you want and you forcefully take something that isnt yours youre a bigger pussy than the one you are stealing.

i dont know how to sound politically correct and just say how smoke'n this chic is at the same time i guess it is not possible, WOW what a booty this chic has. blonde with a big booty what a weapon. she wont name the guy maybe she has feelings for him and its not as bad as it sounds.

the pic above does her looks zip justice
 

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this is me throwing up. I am throwing up becuse I know I will have to hear about this for the next six months.



If any of you guys have played any high level of sports, you know this should have never happened in the first place.


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