The first touchdown scored will never be forgotten. For 11-year-old Keilani Contreras, she will have a compliment and invite that will put the accomplishment over the top.
Contreras became the first girl to score a touchdown in Jacksonville’s Arlington Youth Football Association on Saturday.
“Sometimes boys might be like ‘Oh you can’t do this because you’re a girl’ … well, look at me! I’m a football player!” she said after the game. “You should always go for your dream. … “it doesn’t matter if it’s a boy thing or a girl thing.”
The story was chronicled by ActionJax reporter Ryan Nelson and it made its way to the Jacksonville Jaguars’ new head coach.
He took to social media and offered his congratulations.
That’s a way to ingratiate yourself to a community. And let’s give an assist to the marvelous Amy Palcic, who is all things to the team’s vice president of communications for chiming in, too.
https://twitter.com/CoachUrbanMeyer/status/1377316290981924870?s=20
❤️🏈 #girlpower https://t.co/IzOoQ0Qv1T
— Amy Palcic (@amypalcic) March 31, 2021