Entirely Out of Bounds

摘要

When you're a hot high school prospect being wooed by a college football program, you have to pack a lot of learning into 48 hours. That's the amount of time the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) allows a prospective recruit to stay at any one campus. Administrators and coaches spend the days showing the prospect around. Then the current players take the high schooler out for a college man's night. Sometimes that can mean trouble. Katie Hnida, a former University of Colorado placekicker and the first female football player in the school's history, got her own indoctrination in a disturbing way as a student in the summer of 2000. Watching television one night at the house of a teammate, she says, she was taken by surprise when he suddenly began to kiss her. She told him, "That's not O.K.," but he ignored her protest, climbed on top of her and, she claims, raped her. Outweighed by 100 lbs., the compara-tively little kicker never really had a chance.