Editing Katie Hnida (section)

==Post-playing life==
Hnida travels around the country to share her athletic story and her journey as a victim of sexual assault. She commonly speaks at colleges and universities to educate and raise awareness about assault.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120729063751/http://www.bhpioneer.com/articles/2008/09/24/news/northern_hills/doc48d92dfc05a40988648557.txt Article], BHPioneer.com, 24 September 2008.</ref> Katie has worked with many organizations that help victims of assault, including The Joyful Heart Foundation and the Voices and Faces Project.<ref name='still kicking'>{{cite book | last = Hnida | first = Katie | title = Still Kicking: My Journey As the First Woman to Play Division I College Football | publisher = Scribner | date = 2006-11-28 | isbn = 978-0-7432-8977-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/stillkickingmyjo00hnid_0 }}</ref> She resides in [[Los Angeles]] where she manages her speaking engagements and book tour.

Hnida's father, Dave, is a physician and the medical reporter for the CBS affiliate in Denver. He is also the author of "Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704113504575264673372986444 | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Laura | last=Landro | title=The Surge and the Surgery | date=2010-05-29}}</ref>

In 2006, Hnida wrote a book about her experiences, titled ''Still Kicking: My Journey as the First Woman to Play Division One College Football''.<ref name="still kicking"/> It details abuse and sexual assault she experienced while at Colorado, as well as her experiences afterward at the University of New Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/cu_football/article/0,1713,BDC_2524_4918005,00.html |title=Hnida's book finished |access-date=2006-08-16 |date=2006-08-15 |publisher=DailyCamera.com |author=Iliana Limon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116055511/http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/cu_football/article/0%2C1713%2CBDC_2524_4918005%2C00.html |archive-date=November 16, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2010, Hnida became the kicker for the [[Fort Wayne FireHawks]] in the [[Continental Indoor Football League]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Reggie |last=Hayes |title=FireHawks' new kicker rekindling her dream |date=March 31, 2010 |url=http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100331/SPORTS/3310332/1002 |work=The News-Sentinel |access-date=November 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311073719/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20100331%2FSPORTS%2F3310332%2F1002 |archive-date=March 11, 2012 }}</ref> The league's first female player, and only the second female professional football player in history (after placeholder [[Patricia Palinkas]]), Hnida played in the first three games of the team's season but was released later that year after developing a blood clot in her kicking leg.<ref>{{cite news  | first=Reggie  | last=Hayes  | title=Sports summary  | date=March 31, 2010  | url=http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100520/SPORTS/5200349  | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904184516/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100520/SPORTS/5200349  | url-status=dead  | archive-date=September 4, 2012  | work=The News-Sentinel  | access-date=November 3, 2010  }}</ref>

In 2018, Hnida became gravely ill after an adverse reaction to a prescribed antibiotic sent her into multiple organ failure; her family reported her kidneys and liver failed and her bone marrow quit functioning, resulting in admission to an [[intensive care unit]] and emergency [[Kidney dialysis|dialysis]].<ref name=SFNM103118>Will Webber, [http://www.santafenewmexican.com/sports/unm-athlete-hnida-who-became-first-woman-to-play-college/article_fda99722-09a6-5627-a8e6-7ab7a9b662fb.html UNM athlete, Hnida, who became first woman to play college football, gravely ill], ''The Santa Fe New Mexican'', October 31, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018.</ref>