Haley Van Voorhis

Haley Van Voorhis (born 2003)^[1] is an American football player for Shenandoah University. She is one of the first women to play a position other than kicker in an NCAA football game, at any level.^[2][3] She accomplished this as a safety for the Shenandoah University Hornets on September 23, 2023.^[4][5]

Van Voorhis grew up in The Plains, Virginia. She attended Christchurch School near Urbanna, Virginia where she was a member of the football, basketball, and lacrosse teams. She was 2019 All-State Honorable Mention in Virginia, playing wide receiver and defensive back.^[6] Her senior season at Christchurch was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Van Voorhis' coach reported she would have been a team captain and starting receiver that year.^[7]

Before starting college, Van Voorhis played strong safety in the Pro division of the Women's Football Alliance for the D.C. Divas in Washington D.C., recording 21 tackles in five games.^[8] On Saturday, September 23, 2023, she entered the game in the first quarter for the Shenandoah Hornets against the Juniata Eagles and recorded a quarterback hurry.^[1] During her senior season in 2024, Van Voorhis played in two games, recording a tackle in each game and logging a near-interception pass breakup^[9] in Shenandoah's 41-14 win over Averett University. ^[10][11]

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• Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conferences football game
• Liz Heaston, the first woman to score in a college football game, done in the NAIA
• Katie Hnida, the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision football game and the first woman to dress for a bowl game.
• Ashley Martin, the first female to score in an NCAA game, and the first to score in a Division I game
• List of female American football players

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