Becca Longo

Becca Longo
Adams State Grizzlies – No. 45
Position Placekicker
Class
Freshman
Major Kinesiology
Career history
College
High school Chandler (AZ) Basha
Personal information
Born: (1999-03-17) March 17, 1999
Chandler, Arizona
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 140 lb (64 kg)

Rebecca Longo (born March 17, 1999) is an American football kicker who became the first woman to earn a college football scholarship to an NCAA school at the Division II level or higher when she signed a letter of intent with Adams State University.[1] She attended Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona and started playing football competitively her sophomore year. In 2014, she was a junior varsity kicker at Queen Creek High in Arizona, but after transferring to Basha High she was forced to sit out her junior year.[2]

In her final year, she converted 30 extra points on 33 attempts and was successful on her lone field goal attempt of the season of 30 yards.[3] She was listed as 5 foot 11 inches tall and 140 pounds.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Margin, Jill (2017-04-13). "Becca Longo: Female kicker makes college football history with scholarship". CNN. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  2. ↑ "Female kicker signs LOI for Div. II football". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  3. ↑ Al-Khateeb, Zac (2017-04-13). "Female kicker Becca Longo makes college football history". Sporting News. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  4. ↑ "Arizona teenager Becca Longo makes history with college football scholarship". The Guardian. 2017-04-13. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  5. ↑ Obert, Richard (2017-04-12). "This young Arizona woman just made college football history". azcentral. Retrieved 2017-04-14.


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