Toni Harris has huge dreams to be the first woman to play in the NFL. She is the first woman who has signed a letter of intent to attend college on a full football scholarship.
Toni Harris is an undersized defensive back with huge dreams. The free safety wants to be the first woman to play in the NFL.
While that may be a long-shot wish, she is the first woman who has signed a letter of intent to attend college on a full football scholarship. Harris, 22, accepted the scholarship this week with Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, to play at the NAIA school. "I always try to push myself every single day and keep my faith in God to let me go as far as I want to go," she said earlier this month before Toyota aired an advertisement about her during the Super Bowl.
— Toni Harris ✨ February 26, 2019 The ad focused on how people underestimate her as a player. "I've never been a big fan of assumptions," she says in the spot.Read MoreAccording to CNN affiliate KCBS/KCAL, Harris was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was 18. "I had a tumor inside of my stomach," she said in 2017. She beat cancer, the station reported.
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