Becca Longo is the first girl in Basha High School (Chandler, Ariz.) history to sign a college football letter of intent for a program in NCAA Division I or II.

She is also believed to be the first girl anywhere in the country to accomplish the feat.

The 5-foot-11, 140-pound kicker signed to play for Division II Adams State in Alamosa, Colo.

Longo contacted Adams State during the season and after making 30 of 33 PATs , the team’s offensive coordinator, Josh Blankenship, asked her to visit the school.

“I went on my visit and I absolutely fell in love,” Longo told the Arizona Republic.

Adam State’s head coach and former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Timm Rosenbach said he’s never heard of a female being awarded an NCAA football scholarship. But he doesn’t think gender should play a role in whether someone can play at the next level.

“I don’t look at it that way,” Rosenbach said to the Arizona Republic. “My wife is a former pro athlete. I see her as a football player who earned it. It was like recruiting any other athlete. In Division II, we can see their workouts. To me, there is no doubt she can be competitive. She has a strong leg and she can be very accurate.”

Longo began her football career after being inspired to play by her older brother’s high school teammate, Heidi Garret, who hit a 48-yard field goal for King High School (Riverside, Cal.)

“I looked up to her kind of how some girls look up to me now,” Long said to ESPN.

Before transferring to Basha her sophomore year, Longo kicked at Queen Creek in Arizona. But due to a back injury – that initially led doctors to believe she’d never play sports again –  and a transfer rule, Longo had to sit out for the 2015 season. It was only a minor hurdle in her development.

During the 2015 spring workouts, former Basha head coach Gerald Todd gave Longo the go for the starting position after she hit a 42-yard field goal in practice.

After seeing what Longo could do on the field for him, Todd said he doesn’t think she’ll have any issues playing football at the next level.

“It’s going to be stronger kicking, but she’ll get stronger and she’ll compete,” Todd said to the Arizona Republic. “That’s what she’ll do. She’ll compete. She’ll be fine.”

Longo knows the competition for playing time will be tough, but she told ESPN she’s ready to compete and doesn’t “really have any expectations beyond that.”