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That was the coolest thing I think I have ssen in awhile.  her cuts were awesome.  And her field vision was better than some middle school and high school kids I've seen.  Haha!  Go Sam!

So I guess the only question is, when is Urban gonna offer this girl already?!?! No but seriously that was an awesome video, really cool to watch. That girl is amazing! Good post Cal!

WOW. She made a cut and then switched the ball to her outside arm LOL.

If you don't smile while watching this you are a *ichigan fan! Awesome!

Man this brings me back. When I was 11 I was in my 4th or 5th year of little league baseball and there was a rumor of a team having a pair of twins-one boy and one girl who formed their respective team's battery. It was a local little league so a lot of my school friends were in the league\on different teams and a friend of mine played their team the first game of the year and struck out to the girl 3 times. I remember making fun of the kid at a birthday party for the entire day. It was all fun and games until our team played them. I batted third and watched her fan the  leadoff and #2 hitter but still thought "pffft, toast". I saw 12 pitches that game. I was 0-4. The girl only played another 2 seasons before making the transition to softball-where she went on to lead our public highschool to a state championship. It seemed like she was throwing 75 miles an hour. I was utterly terrified by my fourth at bat and gender had nothing to do with it anymore.

Good for this girl. Show up loud mouthed kids (like myself) who are surely giving her shit about playing ball.

It's all fun and games when kids are little. She'll be a chearleader 5 years from now.

Damn!  Was just about to post this!  Can Urban woo her into being a Buckeye??  ;-)

I had the pleasure of coaching Little League Baseball, working with 9-12 yr olds.  I drafted a girl to our team when she was 10.  Did the same thing Sam's coach did by down talking her in the draft so I could get her with my pick.  She played catcher for our team for 3 years.  The first game that she caught, the other coach decided to run on her (in LL you can not run on the pitcher, have to stay on the base until the catcher has the ball).  She threw out the first 3 boys who tried to run on her.  Needless to say, no other team attempted that. She ended up moving to fast pitch after her LL days, damn good catcher there too! 

Sam's highlights are quite something.  Some kids just get it - kind of have "football sense" - and she has it.  Thanks for sharing CAL3713. 

Sorry guys, Alabama told her to skip middle school, get a paper route and then a scholarship should be available after that.

Those who have followed that story will get the reference.

Whether she continues to play as she gets older or not is irrelevant.  She's a ton of fun to watch right now and looks to be having a blast!  I had to send this on to all my friends and family.  Thanks for giving me another reason to smile today @CAL3713!

She's fast.  Nice instincts.  I too noticed her transferring the ball depending on the coming defensive attack.

Good for her.

The fact that parents are making highlight videos of 9-year-olds complete with yards per carry stats and what not is actually pretty disturbing to me.  As a father of young children I can tell you that I do enjoy seeing my children succeed on the athletic field, but videos and stats are just too much IMHO.

Her twitter handle is blowing up as we speak! lol

Couple of observations:

-SOJ was definitely in use! Awesome

-read option plays, defense had a spy on her and she still took it to the house!

-don't recall playing on any fields like some of those. The dirtball fields were more like it!

-did I see a sack celebration dance?

-helmet to helmets, chop blocks....to learn such horrible things at such a young age!

I loved it. Whatever you are thinking, you gotta understand not many kids at that age are that accelerated on the football field. If you can get any kid to do some of those things, it would be unreal. Half of the kids on my 10 yr old nephews teams couldn't line up right let alone run a read option play. Damn!

that made my day. that looked like a highlight reel of a high school stud OSU is recruiting, except with everyone a fraction of the size hahaha

Sam's football instincts are off the chart. Makes me sad that her likely growth patterns will not allow her to pursue this to the highest levels. I'm thinking she'll probably plateau as a freshman or sophomore in high school. When I played, I never saw a girl on the field past jv-ball. I think the level of contact past those years probably dissuaded the girls I played against from pursuing it further. I can definitely relate to Brewster's little league observations though... in that I was a big slow lineman.

The worst situation was girls who wrestled in high school. Thank god they were nowhere near my weight-class. The guy on our team who lost to a girl ended up quitting. The stigma was unfortunate.

Anyways, I bet she loves playing the game. I hope she never loses that love.

Gordon is a slightly-built but strong back with explosive acceleration and agility. Her strength/quickness combination and elite vision makes her a load to handle one-on-one. Gordon displays incredible suddenness when cutting, and forces opposing defenses to rally to the ball. Gordon is also known as a hard worker and fabulous dresser on and off the field. Areas for improvement include average long-distance speed and marginal upper-body strength. Gordon had a combine worst bench of 27lbs! +’s--acceleration, quickness, vision. –‘s—upper body strength, is a 9 year old girl. Overall Grade—2nd round—Mel Kiper Jr.

I can only imagine Chris Berman commentating during these highlights....WHOOP!

My high school alma mater has had a couple of girls play varisty ball.  Its a small town, so there's usually a spot for them.  A few years ago, one of the them was on the homecoming court as a senior.  She sat in her dress on the float until halftime, then went and suited up.  Gotta say, it got the crowd pretty pumped to see that. 

Looked a lot like Timmons....

I agree Timmons 2.0, but isn't she playing against a little tougher competition than Timmons?

Wait for it...

Just wait till puberty hits...