Homecoming Queen kicks game-winning Field Goal!

EStreetJoe · Dec 15, 2014

Hope this isn't a d_b as I can't find it...

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20111002/NEWS01/110020334/After-winning-homecoming-title-kicker-wins-game-photo-gallery-?odyssey=nav|head

Friday's Pinckney homecoming was unlike any other in the school's history.

For starters, the homecoming queen was in uniform — a football uniform.

Then, a short time after learning of her election, Brianna Amat kicked the field goal that proved to be the difference as the Pirates football team pulled off its biggest win in more than a decade, a 9-7 victory over Grand Blanc.

On Saturday morning, Amat was inside the commons area of Pinckney Community High School, leading the effort to decorate the school in preparation for the school's homecoming dance.

She admitted that she hadn't really had time to think about the night before all that much.

"I don't think it's hit me yet," she said, smiling.

'The best foot' in the high school

Pinckney football coach Dan Burkholder freely admitted he doesn't have much knowledge about kicking.

So, when Joel Lindblade, who coaches both Pinckney varsity soccer teams, told him last year about Pat O'Brien, Burkholder took him on as the team's kicker.

"He mentioned to me (over the winter) that he had another player," Burkholder said. "According to Joel, Bri has a more natural kicking swing. In her words, she had the best foot in the school."

"In January, he asked me if I wanted to try it," Amat said. "In the beginning, I thought it was kind of a joke. I didn't think they were actually going to let me do it."

Once the girls soccer season was over in the spring, Amat went out to the new Pinckney football field with Burkholder to attempt kicking for real.

"I was going to have her kick an extra point," Burkholder recalled Saturday, "and I pulled out a tee and she said, 'What's that?' "

Amat plays on defense for the Pinckney soccer team and has taken corner kicks and free kicks, where the ball is placed on the grass. Same approach as in football, same leg swing, but with no tee, which is used in high school football.

"We had the 2-inch tee (used in high school), and she didn't like it," Burkholder said. "So, she uses a 1-inch tee, which is what they use in college. She actually would prefer to kick off the ground, but the tee is for our holder to know where to put the ball exactly for her."
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Hank_Scorpio · Oct 4, 2011

Although the thread title of this one is pretty obscure on the journalism board.

But you get points for linking to the original story instead of the rehashed NY Times one.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/3161249/

dooley_womack1 · Dec 15, 2014

EStreetJoe said:

Hope this isn't a d_b as I can't find it...

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20111002/NEWS01/110020334/After-winning-homecoming-title-kicker-wins-game-photo-gallery-?odyssey=nav|head

Friday's Pinckney homecoming was unlike any other in the school's history.

For starters, the homecoming queen was in uniform — a football uniform.

Then, a short time after learning of her election, Brianna Amat kicked the field goal that proved to be the difference as the Pirates football team pulled off its biggest win in more than a decade, a 9-7 victory over Grand Blanc.

On Saturday morning, Amat was inside the commons area of Pinckney Community High School, leading the effort to decorate the school in preparation for the school's homecoming dance.

She admitted that she hadn't really had time to think about the night before all that much.

"I don't think it's hit me yet," she said, smiling.

'The best foot' in the high school

Pinckney football coach Dan Burkholder freely admitted he doesn't have much knowledge about kicking.

So, when Joel Lindblade, who coaches both Pinckney varsity soccer teams, told him last year about Pat O'Brien, Burkholder took him on as the team's kicker.

"He mentioned to me (over the winter) that he had another player," Burkholder said. "According to Joel, Bri has a more natural kicking swing. In her words, she had the best foot in the school."

"In January, he asked me if I wanted to try it," Amat said. "In the beginning, I thought it was kind of a joke. I didn't think they were actually going to let me do it."

Once the girls soccer season was over in the spring, Amat went out to the new Pinckney football field with Burkholder to attempt kicking for real.

"I was going to have her kick an extra point," Burkholder recalled Saturday, "and I pulled out a tee and she said, 'What's that?' "

Amat plays on defense for the Pinckney soccer team and has taken corner kicks and free kicks, where the ball is placed on the grass. Same approach as in football, same leg swing, but with no tee, which is used in high school football.

"We had the 2-inch tee (used in high school), and she didn't like it," Burkholder said. "So, she uses a 1-inch tee, which is what they use in college. She actually would prefer to kick off the ground, but the tee is for our holder to know where to put the ball exactly for her."
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Someone want to send the link to Almost Famous?

poindexter · Oct 4, 2011

She is so darned cute!

I love seeing smiling teenagers. Every hs football photo in my area is a growling, snarling face.

dooley_womack1 · Oct 4, 2011

poindexter said:

I love seeing smiling teenagers.
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Why am I not surprised?

The Big Ragu · Oct 4, 2011

I bet she can get away with wearing pink pants.

EStreetJoe · Oct 4, 2011

The original story I linked to was 5 pages long. I only quoted the first page.
If you followed the link there are a couple of other photos of her doing some practice kicking.

mrbigles01 · Oct 4, 2011

Not to be that guy, but . . . no where can I find mention of how they got the six points in the first place. Did she miss an extra point or did they go for 2? If she missed the extra point I think it's a bit disingenuous that none of the stories I have read, including the original gamer include that detail. It's a neat story and I don't want to take anything away from it, but if she missed the PAT it needs to be said.

Starman · Oct 5, 2011

From page 4 of the story:

They had scored in the first half on Lucas Rose's 3-yard touchdown run. Kicking into the wind, Amat's extra-point try went wide left into the wind.

Amat, for her part, said the wind had nothing to do with it.

"It might have been nerves, or bad placement of my foot on the ball," she said.
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KYSportsWriter · Dec 15, 2014

mrbigles01 said:

Not to be that guy, but . . . no where can I find mention of how they got the six points in the first place. Did she miss an extra point or did they go for 2? If she missed the extra point I think it's a bit disingenuous that none of the stories I have read, including the original gamer include that detail. It's a neat story and I don't want to take anything away from it, but if she missed the PAT it needs to be said.
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mrbigles01 · Oct 6, 2011

Starman said:

From page 4 of the story:

They had scored in the first half on Lucas Rose's 3-yard touchdown run. Kicking into the wind, Amat's extra-point try went wide left into the wind.

Amat, for her part, said the wind had nothing to do with it.

"It might have been nerves, or bad placement of my foot on the ball," she said.
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Well then I stand corrected. I must learn to read more closely.

93Devil · Oct 6, 2011

And yes, I am going to that guy....

If you are going to pose a photo, can you at least get the fing track out of the background and have the skull parallel her face?

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