{{Short description|American football player (born 1999)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college football player | name = Becca Longo | image = | caption = | school = | currentnumber = | currentposition = | class = | major = | pastschools = * Adams State (2017–2018) * Gila River Hawks (2019) | highschool = Basha High School (Chandler) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1999|3|17}} | birth_place = Chandler, Arizona, U.S. | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 11 | weight_lb = 140 | highlights = }} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/sport/becca-longo-college-football-scholarship/index.html|title=Becca Longo: Female kicker makes college football history with scholarship|last=Margin|first=Jill|date=2017-04-13|website=CNN|access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref> She attended Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona and started playing football competitively her sophomore year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Obert |first=Richard |title=Female kicker Becca Longo makes college football history |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2017/04/12/basha-girl-kicker-becca-longo-makes-college-football-history-signs-letter-intent/100380190/ |access-date=2025-09-10 |website=The Arizona Republic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-17 |title=Becca Longo drilling kicks at Adams State |url=https://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/20357751/female-kicker-becca-longo-bids-starting-spot-adams-state-football-team |access-date=2025-09-10 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/19147671/becca-longo-signs-adams-state-grizzlies-believed-first-female-get-scholarship-division-ii-level-higher|title=Kicker set to become 1st woman on scholarship at Div. II level or higher|last=Bonagura|first=Kyle|date=2017-04-13|work=ESPN|access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref>
In her final year of high school, she converted 35 extra points on 38 attempts and was successful on her lone field goal attempt of the season of 30 yards. She did not handle kickoff duties.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/news/becca-longo-scholarship-adams-state-kicker-first-female-scholarship-recipient/zn49iubv5b8413n6qgoo20et7|title=Female kicker Becca Longo makes college football history|last=Al-Khateeb|first=Zac|date=2017-04-13|work=Sporting News|access-date=2017-04-14|archive-date=April 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414081803/http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/news/becca-longo-scholarship-adams-state-kicker-first-female-scholarship-recipient/zn49iubv5b8413n6qgoo20et7|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was listed as 5 foot 11 inches tall and 140 pounds.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/apr/13/becca-longo-female-kicker-college-football-scholarship|title=Arizona teenager Becca Longo makes history with college football scholarship|date=2017-04-13|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-04-14|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2017/04/12/basha-girl-kicker-becca-longo-makes-college-football-history-signs-letter-intent/100380190/|title=This young Arizona woman just made college football history|last=Obert|first=Richard|date=2017-04-12|work=azcentral|access-date=2017-04-14|language=en}}</ref>
After a redshirt year, and an ankle injury during the 2018 season, Longo left Adams State without attempting a kick or playing a down in a game. She announced via her social media that she wished to "pursue other opportunities", presumably at other universities.
In September 2019, Longo announced that she had joined the Gila River Hawks of the newly formed Hohokam Junior College Athletic Conference.
== See also == * List of female American football players
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://asugrizzlies.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=4489&path=football Adams State bio] * [http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/becca-longo/9uBK6k0JEea-8KA2nzwbTA/gendersport/football-stats.htm Profile on Maxpreps]
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