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Ema Rehder doesn't appear beyond as a decidedly advancing girl.
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Oklahoma Football Player KNOCKS OUT punches Girl | KNOCKOUT ... | football player hits girlThe seventh-grader at Holgate Average Academy is actually adequately quiet. She's not nervous, exactly, or shy. She's affluence assured in her own skin. But she speaks with a agreeable accent and doesn't beam her chat accomplice in the eye any added than she actually needs to.
She's not, that is to say, the best accessible applicant amid all the 13-year-old girls in Aberdeen to comedy football. But that's who she is.
Ema Rehder, 13, throws a football about in her backyard. Ema is a 7th-grader at Holgate Average Academy and plays assurance on the Golden Eagle average academy team. American News Photo by Cuyler Meade
Ema aloof captivated up her aboriginal division as a football amateur for the Golden Eagles, and don't accomplish assumptions — she didn't comedy placekicker.
Ema played mostly safety, in fact, a position accustomed for some of the game's best abandoned hitters. That's area Ed Reed played. Troy Polamalu. It's area Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor comedy now.
Ema may not bang the backward as addition acceptable to comedy like one of those big names, but that doesn't stop her.
Ema doesn't charge to allege audibly for her teammates — all boys — to account her as a amateur who belongs on the team. She lets her comedy do that for her.
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Video shows FSU football player punching woman - CNN Video | football player hits girl"I don't apperceive (why added girls don't play)," Ema said. "They aloof ascertain (football) as a boys sport."
Ema Rehder, right, on the acreage for the Golden Eagles average academy aggregation at Brookings in the final bold of the division aftermost week. Photo address Jennifer Jorgenson
Ema additionally plays hockey and baseball — yes, baseball — forth with football, and she's advantageous to accept a connected amid two of those sports: Cougars girls hockey drillmaster Shelby Edwards, who additionally is an abettor drillmaster with the average academy football team.
"I anticipate she has added of the mentality maybe somewhat like I assumption I would have," Edwards said of Ema's access to earning her teammates' respect. "Get out there and appearance them what you've got and they'll account you for that against annihilation else."
Ema letters that she feels appealing accustomed by the team, and her mother, Jessica Rehder, and Edwards accede that's the case, admitting it ability not accept consistently been so.
"There was averseness at aboriginal back we started accomplishing hitting drills," Edwards said. "(The boys) acquainted maybe a little bit bad about putting her on the ground, but as we developed, everybody started to apprehend aloof because she's a babe doesn't beggarly she can't comedy football like everybody else. Watching the development from her and from the blow of the boys on the aggregation throughout the year was appealing fun."
Rehder said her acknowledgment to Ema's admiration to comedy football was appealing simple.
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De'Andre Johnson caught on camera punching woman in bar says he is ... | football player hits girl"She's appealing stubborn," Rehder said. "There's absolutely no cogent her. She's played baseball with the boys for the aftermost four years. The aboriginal year (of baseball) was a little asperous back she got hit as a catcher. Girls are so altered from boys. They are congenital different, their attitude's different. But the boys are accepting her.
"Ema's never absolutely been a changeable girl. She has two brothers and she's consistently abashed with the boys. She doesn't booty a lot of applesauce from anybody, but she doesn't get captivated up in the brawl either. I wasn't surprised, but I'm still a little nervous."
Ema Rehder tosses the brawl about in her Abderdeen backyard. Rehder played on the Golden Eagles average academy aggregation this year as a safety. American News Photo by Cuyler Meade
Ema said it was at the advancement of her friends, with whom she had played football at recess, that she went out for the team.
She brand arena with the boys, in part, because of what it agency she doesn't accept to accord with in agreement of arena with the girls.
"Yeah, I don't absolutely like drama," Ema said. "Sometimes (the girls) get absolutely into drama. I'd rather comedy sports."
Ema said the hardest allotment isn't the physicality, but the conditioning. To be fair, that's what best boys would apparently say if they were asked the aforementioned question.
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Joe Mixon | joe mixon story | college football player punches girl ... | football player hits girlBut the animality was still amazing on some levels to her mother. At atomic at first.
"Now, against the end of the season, I say, 'Seriously, I've apparent you hit your brothers harder,'" Rehder said.
But Edwards has apparent what Ema can do on the field.
"There was one play, seventh-grade coaches can be out on the field, so I angle abaft the comedy and she was a safety, so she was appropriate there," Edwards said. "Soon as the brawl was snapped, we were apparently 10 yards out from the ambition line, and she got in there appropriate away, helped accomplish a accouterment on the kid. That was one comedy from her I noticed, she's not afraid. She's not hesitant. Aloof like I'd apprehend from anybody abroad on the field."
Ema Rehder, center, plays for the Golden Eagles average academy team. Photo address Jennifer Jorgenson
"If I get hurt, I get hurt," she said. "I'd apparently accumulate playing."
Ema's got admonition for girls who ability accede accomplishing the aforementioned affair as she does. First, be accessible for the animality and the conditioning. Next, don't be afraid.
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