History in the making: Sarah Fuller discusses kicking 2 extra points for Vanderbilt against Tennessee
After Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score in a Power 5 game when she kicked an extra point for Vanderbilt against Tennessee on Saturday, she shared her thoughts after the game.
“I was just excited, I was so happy that we got a touchdown,” Fuller said on the SEC Network after the game. “I was ready to go out and do my thing.”
Fuller added another extra point in the second half, as she was Vanderbilt’s designated short field goal kicker. After the first kick, Fuller was met on the sideline with immediate fist pumps, and about 10-20 of her teammates mobbed her.
“They were so pumped, they were just cheering me on,” she said. “They worked so hard this year and just so proud to be a part of this team in a small way, so I’m very thankful for those guys.”
After the first kick, an official met Fuller on the sideline and handed her a game ball.
“We’ve all been through so much this year with COVID, they’re just really just tough guys,” Fuller said. “I’m just so thankful I could call them my teammate.”
Fuller, a women’s soccer goalkeeper, made her season debut 2 weeks ago against Missouri. She came to the team because Vanderbilt has dealt with shrinking numbers among its specialists because of COVID-19 protocols.
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Moments after @SarahFuller_27 made history, the ref made sure she got the game ball. pic.twitter.com/JuQd0qIYV2
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) December 12, 2020
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Sarah Fuller is the first woman to score in a Power 5 game. pic.twitter.com/Paq7WS24zu
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) December 12, 2020
Short field goal kicker? So 39 yards is for the long kicker? How were her kick offs. I bet she was so excited.
The tv announcers spent the next 20 minutes after her extra point slobbering all over her one point score. Then Joe Nobody comes in and kicks a perfect field goal and gets no accolades. He is announced as the “Long Range Kicker.” Disgusting.
Hate that she is being used as awoke PR stunt. Very nice and well educated girl being put on display for Vandy PR. Most liberal university in the south trying to get some attention because their football program is a disgrace this year.
This chick is soaking up the attention, she is a collaborator of the worst stripe.
She’s hot!
Seriously, if you look at her kick, it is squarely in the middle between the uprights. If you look at the following kick, it almost went out of bounds. The kickoff guy definitely had a much stronger leg, but if you look at the kick coverage, the kickoff was not supposed to go to the sideline. He could not control the location, which is why she was kicking the PATs. She was 2-2, so it’s hard to call that a PR stunt. A PR stunt is if she does a centerfold layout in a famous magazine to capitalize on her notoriety, or she ends up in Hollywood doing a sitcom about a female football coach at a mythical school, Alabama Tech, where her character’s name is Nicole Saban.