High school senior McKenzie Quinn has become a trailblazer for one of the most storied high school football programs in Massachusetts.Quinn plays wide receiver for Brockton High School in Massachusetts. On Friday, she became the first female varsity player the first female to score a touchdown for the Boxers, who fielded their first varsity football team in 1897.”Everyone’s hitting your helmet and yelling your name. It was great,” Quinn said.Normally out wide, Quinn lined up in the backfield with Brockton near the goal line late in the third quarter of a road game against Dartmouth High School, a Southeast Conference rival.She took a handoff out of a shotgun formation and ran into the end zone from three yards out to make history and put the Boxers up 43-7 in the process.”It took a lot of convincing, like: ‘McKenzie, this means something. This is something big.’ It took me a good minute to realize that,” Quinn said. “But it was less that I made history and more that we made history. I couldn’t have done it without the team.””She’s exceedingly hard-working. She never misses practice. She never misses a workout in the offseason,” said assistant coach Matt Campbell. “She’s at the top of her class academically. She’s pretty much everything you want in a student-athlete.” Quinn has a 5.0-grade point average and also plays baseball and runs track, but she said she is happiest on the gridiron.”It’s a family. They’ve definitely given me a family,” Quinn said. “Like my coach says, it’s brothers for life.”As a wide receiver, Quinn said she is now determined to catch a touchdown pass. Entering this season, the Brockton High football team had 811 wins in its history. That win total is the 19th-highest in the country, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.The Boxers have won 11 state championships since 1972, which is when the first Massachusetts high school football Super Bowls were played. Brockton also won three state titles prior to the start of the Super Bowl era (1948, 1960, 1970), bringing the total number of championships to 14.A dozen Brockton High alumni have appeared in the NFL, including running back Rudy Harris; former Boston College quarterback Mark Hartsell; former New England Patriots wide receiver Greg McMurtry; and tight end Ken MacAfee, a three-time All-American at Notre Dame and a College Football Hall of Fame inductee.Watch the video above for the full story.
High school senior McKenzie Quinn has become a trailblazer for one of the most storied high school football programs in Massachusetts.
Quinn plays wide receiver for Brockton High School in Massachusetts. On Friday, she became the first female varsity player the first female to score a touchdown for the Boxers, who fielded their first varsity football team in 1897.
“Everyone’s hitting your helmet and yelling your name. It was great,” Quinn said.
Normally out wide, Quinn lined up in the backfield with Brockton near the goal line late in the third quarter of a road game against Dartmouth High School, a Southeast Conference rival.
She took a handoff out of a shotgun formation and ran into the end zone from three yards out to make history and put the Boxers up 43-7 in the process.
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“It took a lot of convincing, like: ‘McKenzie, this means something. This is something big.’ It took me a good minute to realize that,” Quinn said. “But it was less that I made history and more that we made history. I couldn’t have done it without the team.”
“She’s exceedingly hard-working. She never misses practice. She never misses a workout in the offseason,” said assistant coach Matt Campbell. “She’s at the top of her class academically. She’s pretty much everything you want in a student-athlete.”
Quinn has a 5.0-grade point average and also plays baseball and runs track, but she said she is happiest on the gridiron.
“It’s a family. They’ve definitely given me a family,” Quinn said. “Like my coach says, it’s brothers for life.”
As a wide receiver, Quinn said she is now determined to catch a touchdown pass.
Entering this season, the Brockton High football team had 811 wins in its history. That win total is the 19th-highest in the country, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.
The Boxers have won 11 state championships since 1972, which is when the first Massachusetts high school football Super Bowls were played. Brockton also won three state titles prior to the start of the Super Bowl era (1948, 1960, 1970), bringing the total number of championships to 14.
A dozen Brockton High alumni have appeared in the NFL, including running back Rudy Harris; former Boston College quarterback Mark Hartsell; former New England Patriots wide receiver Greg McMurtry; and tight end Ken MacAfee, a three-time All-American at Notre Dame and a College Football Hall of Fame inductee.
Watch the video above for the full story.
