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Jodie Farnetti Kicks a Field Goal AND Wins Homecoming Queen

 

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Seventeen year old Jodie Farnetti attends West Blocton High school in Alabama. Her father, Gregory Farnetti, is the coach of the school’s football team, and together they have destroyed gender roles in their community.

As a kid, Jodie would practice kicking while her father was at football practice, but she always just kicked for fun. Her father always joked that one day Jodie could kick at one of their games.

On October 16, the family joke became a reality.

Jodie talked to the football team prior to Homecoming night and asked if she could play at one point because it was her father’s last season. The team decided she could play on Homecoming night. Jodie was crowned homecoming queen wearing a full football uniform. Although she was a varsity cheerleader, she suited up and took the field. According to Huffington Post, when Jodie’s big moment came, “the crowd, the football team, and the cheerleaders went crazy… it didn’t win the game— but it was a moment shared by a daughter and her dad.”

In just one night Jodie went from varsity cheerleader, to homecoming queen, to one of the football players. Jodie tells the news outlet, “He’ll never have a son [but] now he can say that, my daughter kicked in a game that we won in. It’s just very special.” Together, Jodie and her father showed that you don’t have to be a boy to kick a field goal, and just because you can kick a field goal doesn’t mean you can’t win homecoming queen.

It’s a pretty spectacular thing that the Alabama High School has shown. It pushes the idea to do what makes you happy. You don’t have to be a certain gender to achieve something remarkable.

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