Anna Zerilli was the first ever female

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(in 2015) on the boys' Manchester-Essex Hornets team breaking a 60-year-old school record at Manchester-Essex for most points scored (7 points) by a

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in a game. She became the first female freshman in American history to score in a Varsity game. She studied at

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and began training at Cape Ann Kicking Academy with Rick Gonsalves. In 2018 The New England Patriots invited her to kick at

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with

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through the

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. In fall of 2018 she became the first New England female to sign to play college football; she currently plays for

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, and scored the first point ever by a female in a varsity football game for the college on October 26, 2019. She is also the first female to score in a varsity football game in the history of the Midwest Conference. She is tall.

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