Sarah Fuller has made football history again: The Vanderbilt Commodores player was the first woman to score in a game of the five strongest college leagues in the United States. Fuller converted two extra points after touchdowns in a 17:42 loss to the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday.
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“The whole time it was about whether I can do it, whether I’m good enough,” said Fuller after the game. She later wrote on Twitter: “To be honest, it was the Harry Potter socks.”
The 21-year-old, actually a goalkeeper for the soccer team at Vanderbilt University, caused a historic moment with the kick-off for the second half of the game at the Missouri Tigers at the end of November – the medical student was the first woman to be in the top in a game College football on the field.
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She joined the team after a number of players had to be quarantined due to corona infections. But even after their return, Fuller stayed in the squad. At the last home game of the season she was now one of three kickers. In the end, she was allowed to try the two extra points from close range: Interim coach Todd Fitch said after the game that Fuller was safest there. “It’s very accurate in this part of the field. It wasn’t about doing something special, it was really about who got the most kicks in training. ”The other two kickers should have tried from a greater distance, said Fitch.
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