16-year-old becomes first female quarterback possibly in all of Florida to throw a touchdown pass

Quarterback Holly Neher.
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Hollywood Hills High School's football team may have lost the game against their rival, Hallandale, but quarterback Holly Neher won't soon forget it, the New York Post reports. In her first pass of her high school career, Neher, 16, became the first female quarterback in her county — and possibly the entire state of Florida — to throw a touchdown pass last week. "Coaches were screaming from the sidelines," Neher recalled. "Everyone started hitting me on the helmet."

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