RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Ever since she was a child, Cate Goddeau-Hall has been a natural-born athlete, shining the brightest as an award-winning gymnast.
"I did gymnastics for 12 years," Goddeau-Hall said.
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Despite her success, she needed a change.
"I decided to switch into CrossFit because gymnastics was a little too taxing on my body," Goddeau-Hall said.
Despite never playing a team sport, she tried recreation flag football. She enjoyed it so much that she joined the TruSkillz Flag Football team, a national powerhouse.
"I started playing with them, and then from there I went to play at my high school, Suncoast," Goddeau-Hall said.
While playing high school sports, she got an idea.
"I submitted a combine for USA Football, and I got invited to the trials," Goddeau-Hall said.
She made the team but only as an alternate, prompting her to work harder.
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"When I heard alternate, I expected it because at that time I was only playing rusher. It brought me to expand my position-wise, so now I'm playing receiver and center," Goddeau-Hall said.
Since expanding her game, she is now among the best in the sport, recently being named to the high school All-American team.
"It just gives an exciting feeling of how I can lead the next generation into soon being in the Olympics and leading them into playing a sport that they may have even thought of before because it wasn't a girl's sport," Goddeau-Hall said.
Flag football will make its Olympic sport debut in 2028 in Los Angeles, with Goddeau-Hall hoping to make the roster.
