She became an overnight sensation as the first female football player to grace the cover of a Wheaties box in 2012. At the time, she was in fourth grade, and picked up the sport as a way to keep up with her big brother.

The next season Sam "Sweet Feet" Gordon decided to drop football and focus on soccer, but lucky for her team, she didn't stay away for long.

Gordon, 11, came back for 2014, and it looks like the absence didn't hurt her game at all.

The only girl in her age group, she's all of 70 pounds and stands 4-foot-two. She plays for the Herriman district team, near Salt Lake City, Utah.

The tape says she averaged 13 yards per carry this season, torching the boys as she made her way to the end zone. And don't think the boys went easy on her - the highlights show they're hitting her as hard as anyone, when they can catch her.

Earlier in the season Gordon broke down her best and worst games. Describing one rainy day, she says, "I tried as hard as I could but I just couldn't bust open a big run." She might be hard on herself, but the rest of the country has nothing but praise for the pint-sized Darren Sproles.

At the end of this clip, she shows off one of the many perks that come along with being a female football star.

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Danielle Elliot is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact her at delliot@yahoo-inc.com or find her on Twitter.

