“I didn’t want to make the team because I was a girl. I didn’t want it to be some special factor,” Jeffress said to TMC News. “I wanted to make it because I deserved to be on the team. They understood that.”
As for the kick itself, Jeffress displayed the mentality that every coach loves to see out of a kicker.
“I just wanted to do what I’ve always done and not think of it as any big deal,” she told The Houston Chronicle. “My team had faith in me, and they were going to block for me, and the snap and the hold were going to be good, so I just had to do my job.”
Jeffress did her job, but whether Jeffress wanted it to be special or not, head coach Eric Wells thought that the headline deserved some recognition.
“Homecoming queen knocks it through, Dawson wins. You have to love that.”