Vanderbilt Commodores kicker Sarah Fuller makes College Football History

The Vanderbilt Commodores made college football history when placekicker Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play in a college football game for a Power 5 conference. The history-making play was Fuller kicking the opening kickoff of the second half for the Commodores against the Missouri Tigers.

Sarah Fuller is a senior Medicine, Health and Society major from Wylie, Texas. She has also played for the Commodores women’s soccer team as a goalkeeper.

In her four years with the women’s soccer team, she received little to no playing time in her first three years the team not playing a single game as a freshman and just one as a sophomore and junior. It was in Sarah’s senior season where she got a chance to shine for the Commodores soccer team playing nine games recording 28 saves with a 7-2 record.

Just six days earlier, she helped Vanderbilt win the SEC Women’s Soccer Championship after beating the Arkansas Razorbacks 3-1 in Orange Beach, Alabama. At the game’s conclusion, she returned to Vanderbilt joining the football team, and was cleared to play in their game in Missouri against the Missouri Tigers.

Let’s make history. #PlayLikeAGirl #AnchorDown pic.twitter.com/3SgBP1qZru

— Sarah Fuller (@SarahFuller_27) November 27, 2020

Making history. #PlayLikeAGirl | #AnchorDown pic.twitter.com/57ffStmje9

— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) November 28, 2020