{"id":333237,"date":"2023-09-23T02:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T02:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333237"},"modified":"2023-09-23T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T03:00:14","slug":"jackie-aguilar-kicks-her-way-into-history-on-a-dallas-high-school-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333237","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Aguilar kicks her way into history on a Dallas high school football team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jackie Aguilar is making history at one Texas High School where she became the first female to play on the varsity football team.<\/p>\n

A junior at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Aguilar had been dreaming of one day becoming a kicker on the varsity football team. She succeeded in that dream in a recent tryout.<\/p>\n

In doing so, she is now the first female to play on the varsity at Wilmer-Hutchins. She began dreaming of being a football kicker since middle school.<\/p>\n

Those dreams are now a reality for Aguilar. And it has certainly paid off for Wilmer-Hutchins as Aguilar has made 11-of-13 point-after attempts through the first four games of the season.<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Since sixth grade, I always wanted to be a kicker,” Aguilar said according to KDFW, a Fox affiliate in Dallas. <\/a><\/p>\n

“The reason I wanted to be a kicker was because every time I played soccer and I\u2019d shoot the ball, everybody would tell me, \u2018You have a strong leg.\u2019”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The junior said that she told the Wilmer-Hutchins head coach two years ago that she planned on kicking for the team someday. Her efforts in landing a spot on the team and in becoming a successful kicker are sure to inspire future generations of young females.<\/p>\n

Her making the team is a victory, Aguilar says, for all the other females who hope to play football someday.<\/p>\n

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“It feels nice representing the girls because I want them to see how like people say it\u2019s a man\u2019s sport and only men play football, but girls can also play football, too,” Aguilar said. “Girls can be a kicker. Girls can be other positions, too.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackie Aguilar is making waves as a female kicker at a high school in Dallas.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333238,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333237\/revisions\/333238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}