After becoming a media sensation, Fuller reflected on her time in the spotlight, something she did not completely grasp when she lined up for that extra point.LONDON-The Saudi Electricity Company’s recent moves showcase Saudi progress on the path to sustainability both in strategies and business practices. “I kind of pushed for it on the back of my helmet because some guys had stuff on the back of their helmets that they were supporting and I was like, ‘I want to do that.’”įuller said that the timing could not have been more perfect, as she felt that she had a bunch of little moments that were getting her on the right path. “That was just some idea that came to me,” Fuller recalls. On the back of Fuller's helmet was a plate that said Play Like a Girl-a nod to the nonprofit organization of the same name that empowers girls through sports and helps to propel them into male-dominated fields, such as STEM.
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But she did have a great effect on those tuning in to watch history be made. The goalkeeper-turned-placekicker didn't turn around the winless Vanderbilt football team.
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Later that same day, Fuller called her father and he told her, “You know this is a big deal, right?”Īnd her father was right. Her parents were driving back to their home in Texas from Alabama, where the SEC championship was held, when Fuller called to tell them the news that she was going to try out for football. Vanderbilt does not have a men’s soccer team, leaving Fuller as one of the only choices to fill the spot. The celebrations for Fuller only lasted a few days when she was asked to try out for the football team, which desperately needed a kicker. I am that much more proud of winning the championship during the pandemic because it was so difficult at times, just mentally really tough to do, but we got through it.” “I was able to go out there and do what I always believed I was capable of. “I am really glad I stuck with it,” Fuller says. Fuller and her teammates played Arkansas in the finals, beating them 3–1 and bringing home Vandy’s first women’s soccer SEC title since 1994. Fuller recorded an assist on a goal in the quarterfinals against Tennessee, when she effortlessly rocketed the ball down to the other end of the field. The Commodores rolled through the competition. Fuller had a string of shutout after shutout for over a month, and the Commodores would enter the SEC tournament as the seventh seed. It became clear that this was the time Fuller had been so patiently waiting for: She saw playing time in 12 games with 8-3-0 record. With the uncertainty of a season during the pandemic, Fuller still reported to preseason in July 2020. I had lots of days where I would just call my parents crying.”
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I just didn’t know if this was the level I needed to play at if I was just getting hurt all the time. “There were several times that I thought about quitting. “I had been through hell and back,” Fuller says. Then the COVID-19 Pandemic hit and sent everyone home. When she was finally about to play on the field, she recorded her first start and first solo shutout against Chattanooga. Her junior year, the keeper ended up with a hairline fracture in her other foot. But injury struck again and Fuller ended up with an injured disk in her back.įuller, it would seem, was prone to injury. By the time she was a freshman at Vanderbilt, Fuller was ready to play, and more excited than ever.īy the time she was a sophomore, Fuller was fully healed and helped to record a shutout in the one game she played for the Commodores that year. Fuller could launch the ball 60 yards as a high schooler back in Wylie, Texas. Kicking has always been a skill the 6’2” goalkeeper possesses. It was that summer when Fuller gave her verbal commitment to Vanderbilt.
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“It is right in Nashville, and so we took a trip out there, and it was everything I could have asked for.” “My parents told me to look it up because it is a great school in the SEC,” Fuller says. It was a school she had never heard of, but Fuller’s parents encouraged her to take a look. “There is a picture from it at the bottom of my Instagram, and it's me, Casey Murphy is there, Laurel, who is at Virginia-all of these people who are all still present and still awesome at soccer today.”įuller was getting looks from a couple Division II schools, and eventually Vandy came along after seeing film of her playing. “It was goalkeepers only,” Fuller recalls. To focus more on soccer, Fuller stopped playing volleyball and joined an ECNL team in Dallas called the D’Feeters Kicks, and eventually got called up to a national team camp. When Fuller was a sophomore in high school, she started to seriously consider extending her career to college.