For Becca Longo, pressure doesn’t affect her. She’s too busy focusing on making college football history to pay attention to it. While she’s preparing to launch the ball through the uprights with her kick, she’s simultaneously preparing to change the game of football. Millions of fans truly see her as a real-life Wonder Woman. Instead of fighting villains, she’s up against discrimination as well as all the people telling her she can’t accomplish her lifelong dream. Here we’ll tell Becca Longo’s story of how she’s proving each and every day that she can, in fact, live out her dream.
Alamosa’s Finest
Home to roughly 10,000 people, the small town of Alamosa, Co. is located around four hours south of Denver. In the town is Adams State University which is a Division II school. The school itself may not be known for its athletic department, but what it is known for is being the University where Becca Longo kicks on the Grizzlies’ football team. Before we get to this point of the story where Adams State makes NCAA history, we must first go to the deserts of Arizona, where the heat wilts all that is under the sun and the desert shows no mercy. In these conditions, there are only two kinds of athletes: winners and losers.
Alamosa’s Finest
Becca’s Origin Story
Growing up in an athletic family, sports have become an inseparable part of Becca’s life. Sports were her first love, one she would never dream of letting slip away from her. She’d already shown a serious athletic potential from a young age, a talent that would in due time help her make collegiate football history. At just 4 years old, Longo had already been able to stand up on water skis, at 9 years old she was kicking soccer balls with a great accuracy. Sports came to her naturally, as she was a natural born athlete and competitor. Since her youth, she had been competing against her older brother Bobby, battling with him in various sports.
Becca’s Origin Story
