placekicker for the Tigers. With two years of eligibility remaining, she enrolled as a graduate student and won the starting placekicker position for the Tigers 2003 season. In the first game of the season, Butler scored on a 27-yard field goal attempt against Stillman with 9:41 remaining in the first quarter. Although initially unconfirmed by the NCAA as gender was not differentiated in their all-time records, it was later confirmed that Butler was the first female to score a field goal in a college football game. Butler served as placekicker for both the 2003 and 2004 seasons playing for West Alabama. For her career she made 13 of 19 field goal attempts with a long kick of 39 yards, and 48 of 53 in extra point attempts. Her 50 total points made during the 2003 season led the squad, and she was named special teams captain in both her years at West Alabama. Butler also was named Academic All-Gulf South Conference in 2004 and graduated in 2005 with a master's degree in psychology and counseling. In January 2006, her West Alabama helmet, jersey and cleats were displayed at the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis in recognition of her accomplishments as a student-athlete. Butler held the record for the most points scored by a female college football player with 87 through the 2010 season when Brittany Ryan from Lebanon Valley College established the new mark. See also List of female American football players Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conferences football game Liz Heaston, first female to play and score in a college football game Katie Hnida, the first woman to score in a FBS game Becca Longo, first woman to receive an NCAA football scholarship to a Division II or better school References 1980 births Living people People from Fayetteville, Georgia Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state) Female players of American football American football placekickers Middle Georgia Warriors football players West Alabama Tigers football players