Jasmine Plummer
Unless you're a film fanatic, you probably haven't heard of Jasmine Plummer. But this 11-year-old girl, whose football skills are chronicled in the 2008 film "The Longshots," took the field in a game heard 'round the world. Plummer, from a small town in Illinois, played quarterback for a Pop Warner team that made it all the way to the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2003, she became the first girl to lead a PW team to a championship in the league's 61-year history. In addition to having an arm like a cannon and a set of preternaturally developed leadership skills, Plummer set the bar for other girls -- whose league football participation has doubled in the last five years.
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