Sarah Fuller made college football history on Saturday, becoming the first woman to play in an SEC and Power 5 game — due to COVID-19 protocols, Vanderbilt turned to the goalkeeper for the Commodores’ women’s soccer team to be its kicker against Missouri.
She ended up booting a squib kick — that was by design, according to head coach Derek Mason — at the start of the third quarter to put her name officially in the record books. But it was what she did at halftime that deserves as much attention.
She ended up giving a speech to the locker room, telling the team “exactly what I was thinking,” which was they weren’t cheering their teammates on:
I just got off a Zoom call with Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller, who detailed the halftime speech she gave and the reception it received.
"I had coaches come up to me and say 'I’ve been wanting to say that for awhile now,'" Fuller said. pic.twitter.com/AjoEEjJbeh
— Courtney Cronin (@CourtneyRCronin) November 29, 2020
Per the Washington Post, Vanderbilt quarterback Mike Wright “insisted [the speech] did help” and added this: “I mean, you can take a leader out of their sport, but at the end of the day she’s still a leader.”
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