Girls of the Gridiron
By David Lewellen, GM Today, June 15, 2006

When Amelia McCarthy was in sixth grade, the coach at her school asked her to play quarterback on the football team. She went home in high excitement to tell her mother — only to hear, "Girls don't play football." But now grown women do. The Milwaukee Momentum, owned by McCarthy and two other local women, is about to begin its second season in the 34-team National Women's Football Association. Playing at Hart Park in Wauwatosa, they compiled a 4-4 record in their inaugural season in 2005. The team is about much more than wins and losses, however. It's about female athletes pushing into one of the last frontiers, and about little girls realizing that they have more choices.

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