Becca Longo

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Becca Longo is an American football player who became the first woman to receive a National Collegiate Athletic Association football scholarship for the NCAA Division II . She enrolled at Adams State University . Longo attended Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona , where she began playing football in her sophomore year. In 2014 she played on the school team at Queen Creek High in Arizona . She later moved to Basha High, where she was forced to take a year off. In her senior year, she collected 30 extra points in 33 attempts and scored a field goal from a distance of 30 yards. She was listed at 5 feet, 11 inches, and 140 pounds.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jill Margin: Becca Longo: Female kicker makes college football history with scholarship . April 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ Female kicker signs LOI for Div. II football . In: ESPN.com . 
  3. ↑ Zac Al-Khateeb: Female kicker Becca Longo makes college football history . In: Sporting News , April 13, 2017. 
  4. ^ Arizona teenager Becca Longo makes history with college football scholarship (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , April 13, 2017. 
  5. ^ Richard Obert: This young Arizona woman just made college football history (en) . In: azcentral , April 12, 2017. 

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personal data
SURNAME Longo, Becca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century