Rookie kicker gets wish granted on the field after watching Maya Turner play and win

When Amélie Beauregard was asked what she wanted for her 18th birthday, she said she wanted to meet Maya Turner, the female starting kicker of the University of Manitoba Bisons men's football team. 

On Saturday, her wish came true. She and her father flew from Montreal to Calgary, to watch the Bisons play the University of Calgary Dinos. Beauregard met Turner on the field after the Bisons' 22-17 victory.

"Hi, Oh my god, you are awesome," she said before giving Turner a big hug. 

"I do admire you. I was watching your video and I want to meet this girl and I want to do the same as you do.... It's a men's world but we can take our place in it."

Turner has already done so.

She made history last year as the first woman to play and score in a regular-season university football game. She made two field goals, including the game-winner in overtime.

So far this season, the Bisons are 4-0. Turner has made six of seven field goals, the longest being 38 yards. She has also made 11 of 11 points after touchdowns. 

Halfway across the country, Beauregard has been watching, inspired, in what she laughingly describes as "The Maya Effect."

Like Turner, she is also a soccer player who took up football. She is also breaking ground as a rookie kicker on the Sherbrooke CEGEP men's football team, the first woman in the Les Volontaires Football masculin division 2 league and the youngest on her team.

She was excited to see Turner play on Saturday.

"Now I can talk with her and she can give me some advice," Beauregard said. "I think like a lot of girls saw her and was like, 'Holy shit, she can do it. I can do it too.'"

Turner blushed, preferring to let her work speak for itself.

"I'm so humbled that she looks up to me and wanted to come out and