Vanderbilt's Sarah Fuller makes history as first female to appear in a Power 5 game
History was made in Columbia, Missouri, on Saturday afternoon.
Coming out of halftime, Vanderbilt sent Sarah Fuller, the team’s newest kicker and a member of the Commodores’ title-winning women’s soccer team, out to handle the second half kickoff, making her the first female to appear in a Power 5 game.
As you can see below, she hit a little squib kick, which Mizzou had to fall on to keep possession. The way it looked, it seemed like a planned squib:
Sarah Fuller becomes the first woman to play in Power 5 college football game with this kick!
— PFF College (@PFF_College) November 28, 2020
HISTORY MADE 👏@VandyFootball’s Sarah Fuller is the first woman in college football history to play in a Power 5 game. pic.twitter.com/zhSaLqa3Bg
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) November 28, 2020
Making history. #PlayLikeAGirl | #AnchorDown pic.twitter.com/57ffStmje9
— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) November 28, 2020
Whether or not she handles any potential extra points or field goals remains to be seen. First, Vanderbilt’s stagnant offense has to get into range for a kick, which didn’t happen during the first half.
Mizzou holds a 21-0 lead, but regardless of outcome, this game will live on in the history books for the rest of time thanks to Fuller.
YEAY I REPORTED HISTORY BEING MADE… good grief you are pathetic.
You OK, dude?
That’s an actual great football game going on, but that’s not “historical” for you loser soycuck simps..
I hope you find something that brings you happiness. Life’s too short to be this angry about history being made.
What are you complaining about? It’s something that has never happened before. Why not talk about it? There will be a post game recap thread too, go talk there if you’re so horrified of others celebrating a moment in football history.
Eddie the Eagle “made history” too. Unfortunately it wasn’t the type of history worthy of boasting about.
Yeah you are overdoing it with your attempt at being the moral compass. Its ok to be nice…but it doesnt work when you keep calling people out.
Awesome! Despite what critics will say this is a big deal. She can easily kick better than me, and I imagine the adjustment from a soccer ball to a football isn’t as easy as it sounds.
yeah congrats to her. as she’s a goalie it probably isn’t very hard for her (goalkeepers are generally the best distance kickers on the team) and striking a football is easier than a soccer ball, but still she does it better than I so congrats
When I played in high school there was a girl at our school that could quite frankly kick better than all of us (I was absolutely not a kicker haha), really wish we could have gotten her to play but she was t interested.
Good for her!!
What a time to be alive, 2020 y’all.
>>”Vanderbilt chose to let Sarah kick. They chose to dress her for a D1 game… They chose to let her squib kick in this decade and not do the other things, because a squib kick is easy, and because the other things are hard; because she is not capable to achieve any other goal or serve to organize and measure the best of Vanderbilts energies and skills, because that challenge is one that she is not capable of accomplishing, one Vanderbilt was unwilling to postpone, and one they will ultimately lose, and all the others, too.”
Doing something for the sake of doing it is not an accomplishment. Sarah ultimately does a disservice to women’s rights and their struggle for equality. Focus on her unbelievable soccer skills, not her pop warner level kicking ability. This is peak participation trophy nonsense. Sad that Vanderbilt would even do something like this.
What is a disservice is all of these liberals turning sports into a misguided statement on civil rights by ignoring the physiological differences that exist between women and men (of course only informing them when convenient) and will
continue to exist no matter how many angry feminazis scream “I am woman.” I thought “diversity” was all about celebrating our differences and uniqueness. Oh, right, not really, that’s just what they told us. Apologies for being crass, and no disrespect to anyone with special needs, but what’s next? Are they going to trot out some kid with cerebral palsy to play linebacker?
Let her play QB. After she takes a few hits, I imagine it will be similar to Adam Sandler’s reaction to why Brucie can’t play quarterback- “yeah, that’s why.” But hey, since we obviously have to let women play football in order to be woke, why don’t we start letting men play women’s sports? I’m sure there’s a million guys out there who didn’t have the talent to make a D1 basketball roster who would love the opportunity to dominate a bunch of women playing with a tiny ball and a high school 3PT line. Since gender is now a fluid concept, not sure what would stop them.
Made sure to read this article so I could see what kind of Neanderthal comments would follow and I wasn’t disappointed. Instead of celebrating a great moment in sports some easily triggered men lost their minds. So predictable. Congratulations to Sarah and the Vandy program. A small bright spot in a miserable season.
Kinda makes you wonder what intimidates them so much doesn’t it?
You’re comparing playing men’s sports to something like the ability to become a doctor, which is just idiotic. Separating genders in sports is just common sense. Instead you’ve turned it into yet another feminist diatribe. Yet I’m somehow guessing you don’t want men taking the softball field with women, because, you know, all of the things I just said. Always a double standard with the feminists. It’s funny, nature and science don’t care about your idealized vision of gender equality.
LOL. I love how lefties get hard-ons for these contrived publicity stunts. Nobody’s “triggered.” In case you missed it, she didn’t do anything. Nothing. The team lost by 41 points. It’s truly amazing how low the bar is for you people. But I’m all for this experiment. Maybe you can get the javelin thrower on the women’s track and field team to suit up next week at QB. Let’s end the argument once and for all since you idealists are so confident in the results. Maybe after that we can go back to talking about real football.
Despite your “equality” boner, this isn’t even comparable to what Rudy did. He sacked the QB. She executed one awful kick. And at least he had to take hits every day from the scholarship players for two years.
yup. It makes me sad. Can’t even read about SEC football without being subjected to this nonsense. What she did was awesome. She executed the kick she was supposed to. Most of the negative commentets would have done far worse.
What did she “do?” Why is it that if something completely innocuous which in no way affected the 41-0 outcome of this game is suddenly awesome simply because it was done by a woman?
If you’re going to go nuts over this, then give the rest of the Vanderbilt team their participation trophies.
Kudos to her! A National championship in soccer and now being the first Power 5 and SEC female to go into the record books. The kick was not spectacular but Coach Mason said she did just as expected-and kicked it as they had planned, knowing her skill set. A PR stunt? Maybe. But there will probably be lots of football-loving Moms calling the Vanderbilt athletic department or bookstore trying to buy #32 jerseys for their little girls what with Christmas coming!