Sarah Fuller added to Vanderbilt roster, travels with team to Missouri

The Vanderbilt football roster has a pair of No 32s on it. People won’t be as interested in fifth-year senior running back Jamauri Wakefield as they will the other player with those digits Saturday when the Commodores face Missouri in Columbia.

Vanderbilt officially added Sarah Fuller to its roster on Friday, The 6-foot-2 senior, a potential kicker, made the trip in anticipation of becoming the first woman to take part in a Power 5 football game.

Other Nashville teams have taken notice and wished the soccer goalkeeper, well.

Fuller started nine of the 12 games Vanderbilt women’s soccer played during the fall 2020 season. She recorded three shutouts, and the team went 7-2 with her in the net.

Fuller plans to continue her soccer career and education at North Texas. She is from Wylie, Tx.

“I am happy for her,” UNT soccer coach John Hedlund said. “She’s a great athlete with a strong leg. It doesn’t surprise me the football team is interested in her.

“I will probably watch and cheer her on.”

ESPN noted other women who have made appearances in college football games.

Ashley Martin became the first woman to score at the Division I level when she kicked three extra points for FCS Jacksonville State against Cumberland on Aug. 30, 2001.

Two years later, New Mexico’s Katie Hnida became the first woman to score at the FBS level with two extra points against Texas State.