Women’s soccer player Sarah Fuller will wear a football uniform on Saturday for Vanderbilt and is about to be the first woman to play a Power Five game when commodores make a stopover in Missouri.
Vanderbilt is scheduled to face Missouri in one with the SEC Saturday afternoon in Columbia, Missouri.
If Fuller plays, as expected, she will be the first woman to play in a Power Five school football game.
She will “play like a girl” on the back of her helmet.
Power Five meetings are CCA, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC, the largest department I intercolegial athletics meetings.
No woman gave the impression at a Southeastern Conference football game or a Power Five grid team.
Fuller herself posted the on Twitter, writing “Let’s Make History. “
Fuller is a goalkeeper for Vanderbilt’s team, which recently won the SEC championship.
The Commodores were originally going to play Tennessee at home this Saturday before the coronavirus imposed adjustments to the conference schedule.
Sarah Fuller has a chance to make history in school football when she dresses on Saturday
Fuller may be the first player to participate in a Power Five football match
Former players competed at FBS level, but for elite conferences
Vanderbilt is scheduled to play Missouri on Saturday afternoon. Photo: Dudley Field at Vanderbilt Stadium
Fuller started nine games for Vanderbilt’s football team this season, which recorded a 7-2-0 record, but did not allow a purpose in three of those outings.
Fuller also all four games in the SEC tournament, which ended with a 3–1 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks, the top seed, on Sunday.
Instead of taking a break after the end of an exciting season, Fuller headed to painting with the football team, which faced a COVID-19 outbreak in his special group unit according to ESPN.
”She’s very worthy of her,” Wylie’s top-school football coach Chris Bezner told The Athletic. “She had the courage and perseverance.
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