Honesty Butler was not planning to go to college, let alone leave her home state of New York. She loved art class, but hated math and history. Art school was too expensive, so she began to give up on the idea of higher education entirely.
But one day her social studies teacher at Binghamton High School told her he was coaching flag football, which New York State had just begun offering as a varsity sport, and asked if she might be interested in joining the team.
Butler had never played a team sport, beyond a brief stint on the track team, but from the first practice, she was hooked.