- ABC News
- November 28, 2020
Sarah Fuller is poised to become the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game when Vanderbilt plays at Missouri in an SEC contest Saturday. Fuller made the trip to Missouri and is in uniform for the game. If she sees game action Saturday, Fuller will make Power 5 history. "Let's make history,'' Fuller, a senior, wrote Friday on Twitter. Fuller, a goalkeeper on Vanderbilt's SEC championship soccer team, tried out and was added to the football roster this week. Vanderbilt had a grad transfer kicker opt out before the season, and this week several of its specialists had to go into quarantine due to COVID-19 testing. Only two women have played football at the FBS level: Katie Hnida of New Mexico and April Goss of Kent State. "I think it's amazing and incredible," Fuller told Vanderbilt's website. "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...