Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller had a lot to be grateful for this Thanksgiving weekend. Last Sunday she guided the Commodores’ women’s soccer team to a win in the Southeastern Conference tournament as goalkeeper.

And then on Saturday she achieved something that wasn’t even on her radar a week ago. After a Covid-19 outbreak decimated the Vanderbilt football team’s kicking unit, Fuller was hastily seconded to the gridiron squad and became the first woman to play a down of football in one of the five major conferences.

Fuller,…

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