Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller left a mark on the world on Saturday when she effectively kicked an additional point in the principal half of the Commodore’s down against Tennessee. The fruitful PAT made Fuller the principal lady to actually score a point in a Power Five — the name for the five best NCAA football conferences — college football match-up.
Fuller, the Vanderbilt women’s soccer group’s beginning goalkeeper, joined the football crew a month ago as the program was managing COVID-19 issues, as per CBS Sports. She turned into the primary lady to play in a Power Five game on November 28 when she kicked the ball off to begin the second half against Missouri.
A month ago, Fuller, a senior, encouraged lead Vanderbilt soccer to their first SEC Tournament title since 1994.
“I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to,” Fuller said after playing in her first game. “You really can. If you have that mentality all the way through, you can do big things.”
“I think it’s amazing and incredible,” Fuller said after it was announced she would travel with the team for that Missouri game. “But I’m also trying to separate that because I know this is a job I need to do and I want to help the team out and I want to do the best that I can. Placing that historical aspect aside just helps me focus in on what I need to do. I don’t want to let them down in anyway. It’s an honor they called on me to be able to do this and help them out.”
Fuller is the third woman to actually play in a FBS game, as per CBS Sports. In 2003, Katie Hnida kicked two additional focuses for New Mexico against Texas State. April Goss kicked an additional point for Kent State in a 2015 game against Delaware State.
Liz Heaton turned into the primary lady to actually score in a college football match-up when she kicked two additional focuses for the Willamette Bearcats on October 18, 1997. The Bearcats at the time were an individual from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Three different womens — Jacksonville State’s Ashley Martin, West Alabama’s Tonya Butler and Lebanon Valley’s Brittany Ryan — have additionally scored in school football match-ups, yet none of their groups contended in the FBS division.
