Oak Creek's Bianca Alarcon, shown in this 2010 photo, is 2 for 3 on field goals and 21 for 21 on extra points this season. Credit: C.T. Kruger/NOW newspapers

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Bianca Alarcon was in gym class as a freshman when she says she unleashed a "really high and far" kick in a game of kickball.

Alarcon, who says she has played soccer since she was 3, was asked by the gym teacher if she had ever kicked a football.

"I could try it," Alarcon responded.

The next day, Alarcon went out to the football field with two of the coaches and attempted field goals. The more she made, the more she backed up.

Alarcon was asked if she wanted to play in the freshmen game the following day and she said sure.

Varsity coach Mike Bartholomew watched and was so impressed he asked her to suit up for the varsity game that week.

"The first two games I actually didn't play because he was scared something was going to happen," Alarcon said. "But after a while he warmed up to it. I started kicking and started making them. Ever since then I've been on the team."

Alarcon, a 5-foot-4 senior, kicks field goals and extra points. She's 2 for 3 on field goals, with a long of 37 yards, and hasn't missed an extra-point kick in 21 tries.

"If you would have asked me 10 years ago if we'd ever have a girl kicker, I would have looked at you like you're crazy," Bartholomew said. "She's the best we have and she's not fazed by anything."

Alarcon says the boys never made fun of her, and it became a "brotherly-sisterly thing".

"They kind of accepted me and thought it was cool," Alarcon said. "I guess I had to show them why I was there. I kind of had to prove to them why I was there."

Alarcon became interested in football in middle school, when she knew some girls that were on the team.

"I told my mom a lot of my friends were on the team," Alarcon said. "My mom said no because of the tackling issue and it's a boys sport. I'm not a big person, and she was afraid I was going to get hurt."

Alarcon's mother changed her mind when she reached high school and her daughter informed her that the football coaches wanted her to be the kicker.

"I said if I got hurt, I promised I won't play anymore," Alarcon said.