Sarah Fuller (athlete)

Sarah Fuller (athlete)

Sarah Fuller is an American college soccer goalkeeper and a college football placekicker for the Vanderbilt Commodores. She became the first woman to play in a football game for a Power Five conference team when she kicked off against Missouri on November 28, 2020. She helped lead Vanderbilt to a conference tournament championship in the Southeastern Conference as a senior in 2020.

About Sarah Fuller (athlete) in brief

Summary Sarah Fuller (athlete)Sarah Fuller is an American college soccer goalkeeper and a college football placekicker for the Vanderbilt Commodores. She became the first woman to play in a football game for a Power Five conference team when she kicked off against Missouri on November 28, 2020. She helped lead Vanderbilt to a conference tournament championship in the Southeastern Conference as a senior in 2020. On November 13, 2020, North Texas women’s soccer announced that Fuller signed to join the team in 2021 while she studied for her master’s in hospital administration. Fuller was named the SEC Co-Special Teams Player of the Week for the week of November 27–55. She was expected to be Vanderbilt’s coach in her final season, but Derek Mason fired her after a 27-55 overall record in her first season as coach.

She is expected to return to Vanderbilt in the spring of 2019. She plans to study Medicine, Health, and Society at the University of Texas at Austin. She also plans to pursue a doctorate in health care administration in the fall of 2019, when she will graduate from Vanderbilt. She has a daughter and a son, both of whom she hopes to marry in the summer of 2020. The family lives in Wylie, Texas, where she was a starter for two years at her high school soccer team. Fuller is a member of the National Football League (NFL) and the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Hall of Fame.