East Los Angeles College player becomes 1st female skill position player to earn college football scholarship

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Thursday, February 28, 2019
Antoinette Harris, ELA College player, earns football scholarship
Antoinette Harris, an East Los Angeles College football player who shot to fame starring in a Super Bowl ad, is the first woman skill position player to earn a football scholarship.

LOS ANGELES -- Antoinette Harris, an East Los Angeles College football player who shot to fame starring in a Super Bowl ad, is the first woman skill position player to earn a football scholarship.

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The 5-foot-7 free safety is heading to Central Methodist University.

The college junior said she chose the private Missouri school over five others because they had reached out to her long before her famous ad.