<ul class="summary-list"><li>Many of <keyword id="349247" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Vanderbilt">Vanderbilt</keyword> <keyword id="64" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Football">football</keyword>'s specialists may miss the team's next game due to COVID-19 quarantine.</li><li>Commodores head coach Derek Mason confirmed Wednesday that Sarah Fuller, the goalkeeper for the school's women's <keyword id="3071" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Soccer">soccer</keyword> team, could kick for the team against Missouri Saturday.</li><li>If she plays, Fuller will make history as the first woman to participate in a Power 5 football game.</li></ul><p>Vanderbilt football is on the cusp of making history.</p><p>With many of head coach Derek Mason kicking specialists in quarantine, thanks to COVID-19 protocols and his back against the wall, he may take the unprecedented step of tapping a soccer player as the Commodores' placekicker — and a women's soccer player, at that.</p><div type="image" title="derek mason.JPG" height="1839" width="2452" msid="79418145" hostid="261"></div><p>In an interview with 102.5 The Game in Nashville on Wednesday, coach Derek Mason said that Sarah Fuller, a senior goalkeeper for Vanderbilt's women's soccer team, "is an option" to suit up for the Commodores on Saturday. Should the starting netminder take a snap for Mason's squad, she'll make history as the first woman ever to participate in a Power 5 football game.</p><p>"Right now, we're just looking at all options," Mason said on <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/7737689-robby-and-rexrode-derek-mason-11-25-20">ESPN 102.5 The Game</a>. "For us, talking to Sarah, she's a champ, and no pun intended. Just coming off an SEC Championship in soccer… She's a complete competitor. She's an option for us. Right now, that's where we sit."</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CGiOzM6jXgQ" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Sarah Fuller (@sarah_f27)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></p></div></blockquote><p>Fuller practiced with the team this week, which was <a href="https://vanderbilthustler.com/36839/featured/sources-with-specialists-in-quarantine-vanderbilt-soccers-sarah-fuller-practices-with-football-team/">first reported by the Vanderbilt Hustler</a>. The Wylie, Texas, native did not take any kicks despite wearing full pads and a uniform. But according to the Hustler's sources, Fuller partook in walkthroughs with the coaching staff.</p><p>The Commodores are set to face the Missouri Tigers on Saturday, but it remains unclear whether Fuller is slated to hit the gridiron or travel with the team.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/stanford-cuts-varsity-teams-prominent-alums-push-back-2020-11">Stanford's most famous pro athletes are banding together to help convince their alma mater not to cut 11 sports</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-colin-kaepernick-training-for-nfl-return-with-eric-reid-2020-11">Colin Kaepernick is still working hard to return to the NFL, training 5 days a week, and throwing bombs to Eric Reid</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/uswnt-roster-new-players-vs-netherlands-2020-2020-11">Get to know the newest additions to the USWNT ahead of the team's 2019 World Cup final rematch against the Netherlands</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/myles-powell-markus-howard-undrafted-after-all-american-ncaa-careers-2020-11">NBA teams passed on drafting 2 of college basketball's most prolific stars, prompting outrage from fans</a></li></ul>

A women's soccer star has joined Vanderbilt's COVID-riddled football team, and if she plays, she will make history

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10333331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vanderbilt-commodores">Vanderbilt Commodores</keyword> women's soccer goalkeeper-turned-kicker <keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> became the <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">first female to play</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-extra-point-vanderbilt-first-woman-to-score-2020-12">score in a Power 5 college football game</a>.</li><li>Fuller's historic stint with the team has come to an end, but her Vanderbilt uniform is safely enshrined in the <keyword id="1553461" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-football">College Football</keyword> <keyword id="65096" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hall-of-Fame">Hall of Fame</keyword>.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SarahFuller_27/status/1339965843145445379">Fuller called the feat "incredible"</a> after the Hall of Fame shared photos of <a href="https://twitter.com/cfbhall/status/1339951394913013760">her jersey display</a> on Twitter.</li></ul><p>Sarah Fuller is still racking up accomplishments weeks after her remarkable stint with Vanderbilt Commodores football came to an end.</p><p>The women's soccer goalkeeper-turned-kicker - who made history this season as the <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">first female to play</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-extra-point-vanderbilt-first-woman-to-score-2020-12">score in a Power 5 college football game</a> - will now see the memory of her incredible strides on the gridiron enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller" height="1666" width="2223" msid="79843966" hostid="261"></div><p>On Friday, the official Twitter account of the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame broke the <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> that Fuller's Vanderbilt uniform is now on display at their museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Alongside photos of the exhibition - which features Fuller's helmet, jersey, and pants as well as pictures of her legendary kicks - the Hall of Fame congratulated the 21-year-old and thanked her "for entrusting us with the safe keeping of this rich piece of history!"</p><p>Fuller reshared the tweet shortly thereafter, calling the feat "incredible!!"</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Sarah Fuller  (@SarahFuller_27) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1339965843145445379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2020</a></blockquote><p>The Wylie, Texas, native <a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-sarah-fuller-football-kicker-first-woman-power-5-2020-11">first joined Vanderbilt's football team</a> late last month when the squad's typical special teams group was sequestered due to COVID-19 protocols. <a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">She debuted later that week</a>, with then-head coach Derek Mason employing his newest player for a <a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-halftime-speech-pissed-off-with-vanderbilts-enthusiasm-2020-11">squib kick against the Missouri Tigers</a>.</p><p>Then, in Vanderbilt's next game two weeks later, <a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicking-wasnt-because-i-was-a-girl-2020-12">Fuller was tapped to kick two extra points</a> against the Tennessee Volunteers. She was perfect on the day, drilling two kicks between the pipes after Commodores touchdowns. Still, Vanderbilt lost 42-17 to their in-state rivals, knocking the team back to 0-9 on the season.</p><div type="image" title="Vanderbilt place kicker Sarah Fuller" height="1459" width="1946" msid="79843968" hostid="261"></div><p>Though her kicking days are behind her, Fuller's college <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> career may not have come to a close just yet. The senior hopes to rejoin the Commodores women's soccer team in the spring to pursue one final piece of hardware: a national championship.</p><p>Fuller and her teammates secured Vanderbilt's first SEC Championship since 1994 in improbable fashion back in November. Despite heading into the tournament as the seventh seed, the Commodores racked up a record 14 goals and won three straight games before upsetting the No. 1 Arkansas Razorbacks in the title game. Though the SEC champions typically earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, the nature of team selection for this year's competition remains in question, thanks to the uncertain nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/video-female-college-football-kicker-field-goal-saves-team-sprints-2020-12"></a><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-full-field-soccer-goalie-assist-2020-12"></a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-full-field-soccer-goalie-assist-2020-12">Sarah Fuller silenced critics of her Vanderbilt kick by sharing a clip of her incredible full-field goalkeeper assist</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicking-wasnt-because-i-was-a-girl-2020-12">Sarah Fuller said the decision to have her kick for Vanderbilt's football team 'wasn't because I was a girl'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-extra-point-vanderbilt-first-woman-to-score-2020-12">Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with extra point for Vanderbilt</a></li></ul>

Sarah Fuller's Vandy uniform is now in the College Football Hall of Fame after historic kicks

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10333331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vanderbilt-commodores">Vanderbilt Commodores</keyword> women's soccer goalkeeper-turned-kicker became the <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-extra-point-vanderbilt-first-woman-to-score-2020-12">first female to score in a Power-5 college football game</a> on Saturday.</li><li>The 21-year-old insisted after Saturday's game that she earned her playing time and that the decision to put her in the game "wasn't [about] if I was a girl or not."</li><li>Fuller made two extra points in the game.</li></ul><p><keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> may have broken yet another <keyword id="553087" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="glass-ceiling">glass ceiling</keyword> this weekend, but she insists that landing the gig had nothing to do with her gender.</p><p>The Vanderbilt Commodores women's soccer goalkeeper-turned-football-kicker became the <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">first woman to participate in a Power-5 college football game</a> late last month, and on Saturday, Fuller once again made history. This time, she became the <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-extra-point-vanderbilt-first-woman-to-score-2020-12">first female to score in a Power-5 college football game</a> after knocking an extra point through the uprights against the Tennessee Volunteers.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Vanderbilt Football  (@VandyFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1337874206457880577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2020</a></blockquote><p>And even though there was much excitement surrounding both feats for her personally and for womankind, Fuller stressed that she had won the job on her own merit.</p><p>"This whole time has been if I can do it, if I'm good enough to do it," Fuller said after the game, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30504745/vanderbilt-kicker-sarah-fuller-first-woman-score-power-5-football-game">per ESPN</a>. "It wasn't if I was a girl or not. So that's something I've really appreciated. At the end of the day, they treated me like an athlete and that's the best I could ask for."</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1832" width="2442" msid="79729815" hostid="261"></div><p>Her coaches seconded her point, with Vanderbilt interim head coach Todd Fitch explaining that he decided to play her because "she's been accurate in that area of the field."</p><p>"We get in the game and she was highly accurate with it in that range, the extra points and inside the 10, so she was going to get those," Fitch said. "The other kickers were going to get it further back."</p><p>"It was truly off statistics of the week's preparation," he added. "It wasn't about trying to do something special. It was truly who made most of those kicks."</p><div type="image" title="Vanderbilt place kicker Sarah Fuller" height="1459" width="1946" msid="79729817" hostid="261"></div><p>Fuller was perfect on the day, drilling two kicks between the pipes for extra points after Vanderbilt touchdowns. Still, the Commodores lost 42-17 to their in-state rivals, knocking the team back to 0-9 on the season. Fitch's squad will finish out the year with a tough matchup against the No. 9 Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, and all signs point to Fuller remaining with the team to round out 2020.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-extra-point-vanderbilt-first-woman-to-score-2020-12">Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with extra point for Vanderbilt</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-female-college-football-kicker-field-goal-saves-team-sprints-2020-12">Another female college football kicker has emerged, and she saved her teammates from extra sprints by drilling a field goal in her first practice</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-female-college-football-kicker-field-goal-saves-team-sprints-2020-12"></a><a style="font-size: 15px;" href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-full-field-soccer-goalie-assist-2020-12">Sarah Fuller silenced critics of her Vanderbilt kick by sharing a clip of her incredible full-field goalkeeper assist</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team</a></li></ul>

Sarah Fuller said the decision to have her kick for Vanderbilt's football team 'wasn't because I was a girl'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vanderbilt kicker <keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> made history on Saturday, becoming the first woman to score a point in a Power 5 <keyword id="1553461" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-football">college football</keyword> game.</li><li>Fuller drilled an extra point through the uprights in the first quarter of Vanderbilt's game against Tennessee.</li><li>Watch the video of Fuller's historic kick below.</li></ul><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Vanderbilt Football  (@VandyFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1337874206457880577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2020</a></blockquote><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-full-field-soccer-goalie-assist-2020-12">Sarah Fuller silenced critics of her Vanderbilt kick by sharing a clip of her incredible full-field goalkeeper assist</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-kicker-sarah-fuller-congratulations-from-lebron-james-sports-stars-2020-11">From LeBron James to Billie Jean King, Vanderbilt football's Sarah Fuller earned praise from some of the biggest names in sports</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/college-football-playoff-rankings-final-four-odds-2020-12">Only 10 teams still have a legit shot at making the College Football Playoff</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team</a></p>

Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with extra point for Vanderbilt

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history</a> as the first woman to participate in a major Division I <keyword id="1553461" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-football">college football</keyword> game when she kicked for the short-staffed <keyword id="10333331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vanderbilt-commodores">Vanderbilt Commodores</keyword>.</li><li>The starting goalkeeper for the school's women's soccer team did not showcase her full leg strength during the game, as she only delivered a squib kick.</li><li>Fuller showed off leg strength, <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahFuller_27/status/1333469247956250628">sharing a clip of her full-field assist during the SEC Tournament</a>, and wrote, "I'm just going to leave this here."</li></ul><p>Sarah Fuller <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history</a> as the first woman to participate in a Power 5 college <keyword id="64" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Football">football</keyword> game when she kicked for the short-staffed Vanderbilt Commodores Saturday.</p><p>And though her perfectly-executed squib kick was powerful enough to break through the glass ceiling, it didn't have the "oomph" necessary to impress skeptics. But that doesn't mean Fuller isn't capable of delivering massive boots; quite the contrary.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller.JPG" height="1531" width="2041" msid="79521046" hostid="261"></div><p>The newly-minted Vanderbilt <keyword id="208421" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="kicker">kicker</keyword> is the starting goalkeeper for the school's women's soccer team, and she put her leg strength on full display last month during the Commodores' run to their first <keyword id="6362470" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="sec">SEC</keyword> Tournament title in 26 years. In the 72nd minute of Vanderbilt's quarterfinal game against the Tennessee Volunteers, Fuller launched a free kick across the entire soccer field and into the opposite 18-yard box to earn an elusive assist from the goalkeeper position.</p><p>Fuller <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahFuller_27/status/1333469247956250628">shared a clip of the impressive play on Twitter</a> Monday as a reminder of her impressive kicking abilities. And, as if to silence critics of her participation with the football team, she paired the video with the caption "I'm just going to leave this here..."</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Sarah Fuller  (@SarahFuller_27) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1333469247956250628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2020</a></blockquote><p>Fuller may have a chance to <a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-on-football-roster-traveling-with-team-2020-12">put that strong leg to good use on Saturday</a>. Commodores interim head coach Todd Fitch confirmed that she is continuing to practice with his team. And Fitch — who took over the program after former head coach Derek Mason's dismissal last week — added that Fuller would travel to Athens, Georgia, this weekend ahead of Vanderbilt's game against the No. 11 Georgia Bulldogs.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1832" width="2442" msid="79521047" hostid="261"></div><p>"She'll be with us on the trip to Georgia, and we're going to put the best people out there," Fitch said, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30428972/sarah-fuller-set-kick-again-breaking-barrier">per ESPN</a>. "If she's our best option, we'll continue with her, and we'll do the best we can for the team."</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-on-football-roster-traveling-with-team-2020-12">Sarah Fuller remains on Vanderbilt football's roster and will travel for the team's upcoming game against Georgia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-halftime-speech-pissed-off-with-vanderbilts-enthusiasm-2020-11">Sarah Fuller was 'pissed off' with the lack of enthusiasm on the Vanderbilt sidelines, and she told the team how she felt in an impassioned halftime speech</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-kicker-sarah-fuller-congratulations-from-lebron-james-sports-stars-2020-11">From LeBron James to Billie Jean King, Vanderbilt football's Sarah Fuller earned praise from some of the biggest names in sports</a></li></ul>

Sarah Fuller silenced critics of her Vanderbilt kick by sharing a clip of her incredible full-field goalkeeper assist

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> — who <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history</a> Saturday as the first woman to participate in a Power 5 <keyword id="64" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Football">football</keyword> game — is sticking with the Vanderbilt football team.</li><li>The women's <keyword id="3071" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Soccer">soccer</keyword> goalie turned Commodores kicker is still on the football roster despite the dismissal of head coach Derek Mason last week.</li><li>Interim head coach Todd Fitch told reporters Tuesday that <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30428972/sarah-fuller-set-kick-again-breaking-barrier">Fuller will take the trip to Georgia</a> this weekend and may see the field against the No. 11 Bulldogs Saturday afternoon. </li></ul><p>Sarah Fuller could be hitting the gridiron again.</p><p>The Vanderbilt women's soccer goalie turned football kicker <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history</a> Saturday as the first woman to participate in a Power 5 <keyword id="1553461" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-football">college football</keyword> game, and the Commodores coaching staff is sticking with the senior soccer star heading into the team's next contest.</p><div type="image" title="Vanderbilt place kicker Sarah Fuller" height="1459" width="1946" msid="79520583" hostid="261"></div><p>Interim head coach Todd Fitch confirmed during a Tuesday call with media that Fuller has continued to practice with his team. Fitch — who took over the program after former head coach Derek Mason's dismissal last week — added that Fuller will travel to Athens, Georgia, this weekend ahead of Vanderbilt's game against the No. 11 Georgia Bulldogs.</p><p>"She'll be with us on the trip to Georgia and we're going to put the best people out there," Fitch said, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30428972/sarah-fuller-set-kick-again-breaking-barrier">per ESPN</a>. "If she's our best option we'll continue with her and we'll do the best we can for the team."</p><p>The school's football team initially called on Fuller after COVID-19 protocols forced a number of the Commodores' specialists into quarantine. Fitch confirmed that the players in question remain ineligible for his team.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1874" width="2499" msid="79520585" hostid="261"></div><p>Though she boasts an impressive leg, Fuller didn't have a chance to showcase her full strength during Saturday's 41-0 blowout loss. The <keyword id="6362470" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="sec">SEC</keyword> Special Teams Player of the Week only kicked once during the lopsided affair, and though she perfectly executed a squib kick for the team, the 30-yard placement wasn't close to the powerful boot the netminder has <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahFuller_27/status/1333469247956250628">displayed during soccer games</a>.</p><p>Perhaps she'll put it to use on Saturday. She sits atop Vanderbilt's depth chart and is the only kicker currently listed ahead of this weekend's game, <a href="https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/sarah-fuller-listed-atop-vanderbilts-depth-chart-ahead-of-game-vs-no-9-georgia-180432888.html">according to Yahoo! Sports</a>. And that's just fine by Fuller, who had previously said that she's "sticking around until someone tells me to go."</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller.JPG" height="1531" width="2041" msid="79520587" hostid="261"></div><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-halftime-speech-pissed-off-with-vanderbilts-enthusiasm-2020-11">Sarah Fuller was 'pissed off' with the lack of enthusiasm on the Vanderbilt sidelines, and she told the team how she felt in an impassioned halftime speech</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with kickoff for Vanderbilt</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-kicker-sarah-fuller-congratulations-from-lebron-james-sports-stars-2020-11">From LeBron James to Billie Jean King, Vanderbilt football's Sarah Fuller earned praise from some of the biggest names in sports</a></li></ul>

Sarah Fuller remains on Vanderbilt football's roster and will travel for the team's upcoming game against Georgia

From LeBron James to Billie Jean King, Vanderbilt football's Sarah Fuller earned praise from some of the biggest names in sports

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history</a> as the first woman to participate in a major Division I <keyword id="1553461" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-football">college football</keyword> game when she kicked for the short-staffed <keyword id="10333331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vanderbilt-commodores">Vanderbilt Commodores</keyword> Saturday.</li><li>After the historic feat, Fuller told the press that she wasn't concerned with haters' criticism of her performance based on her gender.</li><li>"They can talk crap all they want; this is something that I believe I've earned," Fuller said. "I'll take on the hate. I don't care."</li></ul><p>Sarah Fuller is not concerned with the opinions of haters and trolls.</p><p>The Vanderbilt Commodores women's <keyword id="3071" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Soccer">soccer</keyword> goalkeeper-turned-football <keyword id="208421" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="kicker">kicker</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history Saturday</a> as the first woman to participate in a major Division I college <keyword id="64" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Football">football</keyword> game. And even though she executed a planned squib kick to perfection upon her first kick for the team, Fuller has unsurprisingly received undue criticism for her role in Vanderbilt's shutout loss against the Missouri Tigers.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller.JPG" height="1531" width="2041" msid="79499765" hostid="261"></div><p>"I've been trying not to look at the comments, but it's hard not to see them sometimes when they're talking crap about you," <a href="https://twitter.com/sportsiren/status/1333143966603153410">Fuller told ESPN's Holly Rowe after the game</a>. "I'm just like, at this point, what are you doing? I am a D1 soccer player. I go to Vanderbilt University. I'm going to get my degree from here. I've done amazing things that I've set out to do, and I've had goals of reaching, so they can talk crap all they want. This is something that I believe I've earned."</p><p>"I'll take on the hate. I don't care," she added.</p><p>A post depicting the plight of Fuller — and, more broadly, women in <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> — <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyspada_/status/1332713336824328194">went viral on Twitter</a> Saturday. The tweet, shared by @emilyspada_, showed a slew of negative and questioning responses to a ESPN Instagram post about Fuller's historic feat.</p><p>The comments included everything from "Is it bad that I want her to get ROCKED ? I mean it's only fair" and "make her realize it's 2020, but you shouldn't be on the mfkn field" to "publicity stunt" and "They couldn't have grabbed one from the guys team?"</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—emily spada  (@emilyspada_) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1332713336824328194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2020</a></blockquote><p>But such criticisms haven't shaken Fuller's confidence in her own abilities or in her deservedness for the role.</p><p>"I know there are probably people out there who are like 'She doesn't even play football,'" Fuller said. "But I was the right person for the job... I think I had all the right skills and everything to be myself, to represent my family well, to represent the school well, and I think that was enough."</p><p>And even though Fuller recognizes that scrutiny is, and will continue to be, much sharper given her gender, she insists that she can take it.</p><p>"If I would've messed up on the kick or had a chance at a field goal and would've missed it, people would've criticized me," she said. "But I'm not going to say I'm not going to bounce back up and be like 'Hey, let's do it again.'"</p><p>"The moment I put those pads on... I was like, 'This is awesome,'" she added. "I felt strong. I wanted to do to the best of my ability given that I had just a week to learn it. I was confident."</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1559" width="2079" msid="79499766" hostid="261"></div><p>In fact, Fuller is hoping she'll have the chance to spend more time with the team. After Saturday's game, she said she "would love to learn more" and that she's "sticking around until someone tells me to go."</p><p>"I've been having a lot of fun doing this," Fuller said, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/sarah-fuller-plans-stick-vanderbilt-football-addresses-halftime/story?id=74450359">per ABC News</a>. "It's a challenge for me, but it's something I know I can do. It's applicable from doing a goal kick to a field goal kick, so I want to continue learning, and if those guys can help me, I'm all for it."</p><p>Fuller added that Commodores special-teams coach Devin Fitzsimmons told her "we'd love to have you around" after their game against Missouri. But with head coach Derek Mason losing his job following Vanderbilt's eighth loss of the year, things are subject to change within the program.</p><p>The Commodores are scheduled to take on the No. 9 Georgia Bulldogs Saturday at 4 p.m., and it remains unclear whether Fuller will join the team down in Athens.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-halftime-speech-pissed-off-with-vanderbilts-enthusiasm-2020-11">Sarah Fuller was 'pissed off' with the lack of enthusiasm on the Vanderbilt sidelines, and she told the team how she felt in an impassioned halftime speech</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with kickoff for Vanderbilt</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-sarah-fuller-football-kicker-first-woman-power-5-2020-11">A women's soccer star has joined Vanderbilt's COVID-riddled football team, and she's set to make college football history</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-kristie-mewis-goal-vs-netherlands-celebrates-with-sister-sam-2020-11">Kristie Mewis scored during her first USWNT appearance in 6 years, and her younger sister was the first player to hug her in celebration</a></li></ul>

Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">made history</a> as the first woman to participate in a major Division I <keyword id="64" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Football">football</keyword> game when she kicked for the <keyword id="10333331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vanderbilt-commodores">Vanderbilt Commodores</keyword> on Saturday.</li><li>The <keyword id="3071" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Soccer">soccer</keyword> goalkeeper said she delivered an impassioned halftime speech to the team after noticing a lack of enthusiasm on the sidelines.</li><li>"I just went in there and I said exactly what I was thinking," Fuller said. "I was like, 'We need to be cheering each other on. This is how you win games.'"</li></ul><p>Sarah Fuller is doing more than <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">making college-football history</a> for the Vanderbilt Commodores.</p><p>She's also ready to help turn the team around.</p><p>Fuller became the first woman to participate in a Division I football game when she kicked for Derek Mason's Vanderbilt squad against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday.</p><p>Mason lost his head-coaching gig on Sunday after the winless Commodores failed to score a single point in the SEC matchup. Fuller, a soccer goalkeeper turner <keyword id="208421" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="kicker">kicker</keyword>, was quick to recognize an attitude problem on the sidelines that might have contributed to the team's losing ways.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1832" width="2442" msid="79497315" hostid="261"></div><p>Even though she had only just joined the team, Fuller didn't hesitate to call her new teammates out in an impassioned halftime speech.</p><p>"I just went in there and I said exactly what I was thinking," Fuller told reporters after Saturday's game, <a href="https://twitter.com/CourtneyRCronin/status/1333103207573118977">per ESPN's Courtney Cronin</a>. "I was like, 'We need to be cheering each other on. This is how you win games. This is how you get better is by calling each other out for stuff, and I'm going to call you guys out. We need to be supporting one another.'"</p><p>Fuller knows a thing or two about what it takes to win. At the time of her historic kick for the school's football team, the starting netminder was less than a week removed from winning the SEC championship with the women's soccer team.</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1559" width="2079" msid="79497316" hostid="261"></div><p>Fuller, a native of Wylie, Texas, said she and her teammates were cheering throughout their 3-1 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. She credited those "nonstop" cheers with powering the program to its first title in 26 years.</p><p>"During the SEC tournament, my entire team was cheering the entire time," Fuller said. "It didn't matter if we were in the locker room or if they were on the sidelines. I think they're what won it for us."</p><p>The atmosphere on the sidelines during Saturday's game couldn't have been more different — Fuller said it was apparent early on that enthusiasm was lacking among her new football teammates.</p><p>"If I'm going to be honest, I was a little pissed off at how quiet everybody was on the sideline," Fuller said. "We made a first down, and I was the only one cheering, and I was like, 'What the heck? What's going on?' And I tried to get them pumped up."</p><p>As it turns out, Fuller wasn't the only one thinking those things. She said coaches came up to her after her halftime speech and told her they'd "been wanting to say that for a while now."</p><div type="image" title="sarah fuller vanderbilt.JPG" height="1874" width="2499" msid="79497317" hostid="261"></div><p>Players were on the same page, Fuller said.</p><p>"I had guys come up to me. I hope I gained their respect," she said, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/sarah-fuller-plans-stick-vanderbilt-football-addresses-halftime/story?id=74450359">per ABC News</a>. "It wasn't ill-intentioned at all. I just want this team to succeed and do well."</p><p>The Commodores are scheduled to take on the No. 9 Georgia Bulldogs Saturday at 4 p.m. Though it remains unclear whether Fuller will join the team down in Athens, she said she's "sticking around until someone tells me to go."</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-critics-can-talk-crap-all-they-want-2020-11">Sarah Fuller said haters can 'talk crap all they want' about her historic stint with Vanderbilt football team</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-sarah-fuller-first-woman-college-football-kicker-vandy-2020-11">Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with kickoff for Vanderbilt</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-sarah-fuller-football-kicker-first-woman-power-5-2020-11">A women's soccer star has joined Vanderbilt's COVID-riddled football team, and she's set to make college football history</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-kristie-mewis-goal-vs-netherlands-celebrates-with-sister-sam-2020-11">Kristie Mewis scored during her first USWNT appearance in 6 years, and her younger sister was the first player to hug her in celebration</a></li></ul>

Sarah Fuller was 'pissed off' with the lack of enthusiasm on the Vanderbilt sidelines, and she told the team how she felt in an impassioned halftime speech

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vanderbilt women's soccer goalkeeper <keyword id="4972597" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-fuller">Sarah Fuller</keyword> made history as the first woman to play in a Power 5 conference <keyword id="1553461" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="college-football">college football</keyword> game.</li><li>Vandy did not get any kick attempts in the first half, but Fuller started the second half with a kickoff.</li><li>Fuller won a tryout to fill in as a placekicker after the Commodores lost several players who tested positive for COVID-19.</li></ul><p>Sarah Fuller is the first woman to play college football in one of college football's Power 5 conferences.</p><p>On Saturday, Fuller suited up for the <keyword id="10333331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vanderbilt-commodores">Vanderbilt Commodores</keyword> as a placekicker. The team was shut out in the first half without any kick attempts. However, Fuller made history when she led off the second half with a kickoff.</p><p>After the kick, the Missouri fans gave her a standing ovation.</p><iframe src="https://streamable.com/e/y7h9o1" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%" style="width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden;"></iframe><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/vanderbilt-sarah-fuller-football-kicker-first-woman-power-5-2020-11">Fuller, a star goalkeeper on the Vandy women's soccer team, was added to the roster by head coach Derek Mason</a>. The team needed a kicker after several kick specialists were slated to miss the game against Missouri due to COVID-19 quarantine.</p><p>Fuller had "PLAY LIKE A GIRL" on the back of her helmet to promote a not-for-profit that encourages women to play <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> and participate in STEM activities. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Sarah Fuller  (@SarahFuller_27) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1332415214994731011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote>

Women's soccer star Sarah Fuller makes college football history with kickoff for Vanderbilt

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12161168" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anderson-cooper" source="Orion">Anderson Cooper</keyword> said on the "Morning Meeting" podcast that he won't leave an <keyword id="12187212" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inheritance" source="Orion">inheritance</keyword> for his son.</li><li>"I don't believe in passing on huge amounts of money," Cooper said.</li><li>Cooper's late mother, <keyword id="12166982" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gloria-vanderbilt" source="Orion">Gloria Vanderbilt</keyword>, was born into one of America's wealthiest families.</li></ul><p>Anderson Cooper said on <a href="https://airmail.news/issues/2021-9-25/morning-meeting-episode-54">the "Morning Meeting" podcast</a> that he will not be leaving an inheritance for his son, Wyatt Morgan.</p><p>Morgan was born <a href="https://www.insider.com/anderson-cooper-said-never-thought-would-be-dad-2020-5">via surrogacy</a> last year and is the only child of Cooper, who <a href="https://www.insider.com/anderson-cooper-coparent-son-exboyfriend-benjamin-maisani-2020-5">co-parents Morgan</a> with his ex-boyfriend Benjamin Maisani.</p><p>Cooper appeared on the "Morning Meeting with <a href="https://airmail.news/">Air Mail</a> editors" to talk about his new book about his ancestors "Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty."</p><div type="image" title="Anderson Cooper Gloria Vanderbilt" height="1200" width="1600" msid="86555399" hostid="261"></div><p>Cooper's mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was born into one of America's wealthiest families as she was the great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who made a fortune from building a railroad empire. According to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/06/17/gloria-vanderbilt-designer-and-mother-to-anderson-cooper-dies-at-95/?sh=506b7eab7f5e">Forbes</a>, she was born with a trust fund which was equivalent to $35 million today, and then went on to build a fashion empire that earned $100 million annually.</p><p>When asked about whether Cooper would leave an inheritance for his own son after researching his family history, the CNN anchor said: "I don't believe in passing on huge amounts of money. I don't know what I'll have. I'm not that interested in money, but I don't intend to have some sort of pot of gold for my son.</p><p>"I'll go with what my parents said … 'College will be paid for, and then you gotta get on it,'" Cooper added in the interview.</p><p>Cooper earns around $12 million from CNN alone, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rich-anderson-cooper-fortune-age-192500388.html">Yahoo Finance</a>, citing multiple reports, says.</p><p>Cooper's mother passed away in 2019 but in 2014, the 54-year-old anchor had already made clear his view on inheriting her money.</p><p>He <a href="https://soundcloud.com/howardstern/andersooncoopernoinheritance">said on "The Howard Stern Show"</a>: "My mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund. There's none of that. I don't believe in inheriting money … I think it's a curse … From the time I was growing up, if I felt like there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know if I would have been so motivated."</p><p>"James Bond" actor <keyword id="11898344" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="daniel-craig" source="Orion">Daniel Craig</keyword> also recently <a href="https://www.candis.co.uk/all-celebs/we-talk-to-daniel-craig/">told Candis Magazine</a> that he doesn't agree with leaving inheritances.</p><p>Craig, who has two children, said: "I don't want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful. My philosophy is get rid of it or give it away before you go."</p>

Anderson Cooper, who earns a reported $12 million a year from CNN alone, says he won't leave his son an inheritance

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5649d8e511231460008b54d6-640-480/tk4va-737jn-depihtzutzbujetibhcmqeyeiynbdrk.jpg" alt="Ample Hills" data-mce-source="Ample Hills" /><p class="source"><span>Ample Hills</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>In the summer of 2011, when Brian Smith opened the first Ample Hills Creamery ice-cream shop in Brooklyn, he actually ended up losing 25 pounds. That's what happens when you </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">work 14 hours a day turning buckets of milk and cream into zany ice cream flavors like salted-crack caramel.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'd never done a day's work of manual labor in my life," the former horror-movie screenwriter tells Business Insider. But now he had a new type of blockbuster hit on his hands, and was working himself to exhaustion trying to sustain it.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ample Hills became a runaway success right out of the gate. The shop was written up in the New York Times and had a line out the door its first weekend. Smith <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCgQFjACahUKEwjhtJbriJXJAhVFbj4KHTQgBbw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcityroom.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F06%2F02%2Fso-successful-a-new-ice-cream-shop-closes-after-4-days%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXLVZHTCqs_l2IFnWfCesQKjQJMQ&amp;bvm=bv.107467506,d.dmo">ended up having to shut down the shop</a> for a week after being open just four days. He simply ran out of ice cream.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We were definitely unprepared for that level of success," Smith says. "We were psychologically prepared for failure. We had plan B's in mind, but we hadn't really planned for success."</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since that summer in 2011, Ample Hills' success has only grown. Smith and his wife Jackie </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cuscuna</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a high school teacher who joined the business full time in December, now operate 5 shops total (including kiosks), and have raised $4 million from prominent tech investors to open a factory in Brooklyn.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The factory, which will span 15,000 square feet and employ between 25 and 50 people, is the centerpiece of a new expansion plan for Ample Hills. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5649db3b2491f9c12e8b52ab-640-960/jfdif7vx0kuxujnuhmgoe-roo01lnv9wsw6_lfuyuaw.jpg" alt="ample hills 2" data-mce-source="Ample Hills" /><p class="source"><span>Ample Hills</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>The model going forward, Smith explains, starts with their first shop on Vanderbilt avenue.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The Vanderbilt shop makes only one ice cream flavor on-site," he says. "It's called 'The Commodore' because that was Cornelius Vanderbilt's nickname," and it's a flavor inspired by his life.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Every new Ample Hills shop will have one flavor you can only get at that specific location, and which you can see being made in front of you. The rest of the flavors will be made in Ample Hills' new factory.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smith hopes this will be a way to keep the homemade feel that drew people to the original shop, while allowing the company to grow - first in New York City, then into the rest of the US.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"A big differentiator for us was that we were making everything on site, from beginning to end. People would come and stand in line and they would see me mixing eggs and milk, and chopping cookie dough up into pieces and putting it in the ice cream. You don't often see the process," he says.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Smith, it added a bit of story to the whole endeavor - a narrative. This was central for Smith. Before opening Ample Hills, he had primarily written horror movie scripts. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I made bad monster movies for TV," he chuckles. "Ones with giant killer birds and aliens on a runaway train." His favorite is "Beneath," a movie which had a short theatrical run and features kids on a rowboat in a lake feeding each other to a monster.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smith points out that while the kid-friendly aesthetic of Ample Hills could not be further from this "mean-spirited teen horror film," when he set about raising money from venture capitalists for Ample Hills he felt like he was back pitching a screenplay.</span></p><p>"It forced my wife and I to nail down what it is that makes Ample Hills special," Smith says.</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This round of investment is led by Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and includes Lerer Hippeau Ventures, </span>Red Sea Ventures, the founders of Seamless, and a syndicate headed by the cofounder of Brooklyn Brewery. </p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So what did they love about Ample Hills?</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"A lot of excitement for the tech people was around there being so many business models. There isn't only one trajectory and one thing." </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smith will use the money on a three-pronged strategy. The first piece is opening more brick-and-mortar shops, but the second is getting Ample Hills ice cream into grocery stores (now at about 20), and the third is expanding direct shipments to customers.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5649dbc12491f942008b54f2-641-480/jvmundsp30lrtnnvutkhjcel38qobfohoectaoacm6y.jpg" alt="ample hills 3" data-mce-source="Ample Hills" /><p class="source"><span>Ample Hills</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>"I think the 'e-commerce aspect' [of selling directly to customers] is what intrigued them. That's an untapped model and not a lot of people are doing it." </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ample Hills ships to people around the country using dry ice and Styrofoam containers. Right now, that is a very small portion of the business, at only roughly 3%. And Smith says the heart of Ample Hills will always be brick-and-mortar. But the tech investors think direct shipping could be an important step, according to Smith.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whatever direction Ample Hills goes, it has already made the transition from "mid-life crisis" to neighborhood favorite. 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<p>Hundreds of thousands of kids throughout the world learned Tuesday at 5 p.m. if they were accepted or rejected into the Ivy League.</p><p>The reaction across Twitter reflected a range of emotions as kids signed online and discovered their fate for the upcoming year.</p><p><strong>Reactions ranged from pure joy:</strong></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Dreams actually do come true!! Today has been one of the best days of my life! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yale2019?src=hash">#Yale2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/futurebulldog?src=hash">#futurebulldog</a></p>- Miguel Lepe  (@malepe0425) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583134966227202048">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I GOT INTO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY! I'M CRYING <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Columbia2019?src=hash">#Columbia2019</a> ???????? <a href="http://t.co/TnVXSm95vo">pic.twitter.com/TnVXSm95vo</a></p>- Marchelle Lundquist  (@Marchellelq) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583060513048821760">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>So unbelievably grateful ?????? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/harvard2019?src=hash">#harvard2019</a> <a href="http://t.co/OiT38dXmvo">pic.twitter.com/OiT38dXmvo</a></p>- Ana Montalvo  (@AnaMontalvo01) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583017454256988160">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>To disappointment:</strong></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Aaand I don't know why I considered the possibility of getting in. Bye Harvard College Class of 2019. <a href="http://t.co/7pTEKoBW90">pic.twitter.com/7pTEKoBW90</a></p>- Mateo ValldeRuten C.  (@vcmatt42) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583029121942450176">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Definitely not Princeton class of 2019</p>- captain  (@RobReidyTFM) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583035202328510464">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Some chose to use humor to combat their rejections:</strong></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>So proud to say I've been admitted to Harvard class of 2019!lol jk we going to Bucknell</p>- Troy Rothschild  (@trschwab) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583279749889454080">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Hoping Harvard sends me an email saying, "April's fool! You're not rejected. Congratulations on admittance into our class of 2019!"</p>- Rebeca  (@BeckyBeaar) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583289332267515905">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p>&#xa0;</p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Chocolate milk will never reject you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/protips?src=hash">#protips</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IvyDay?src=hash">#IvyDay</a></p>- Josh Hughes  (@JoshHughesIA) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583116742924185600">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p>&#xa0;</p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Caught those rejections like Odell Beckham Jr. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IvyDay?src=hash">#IvyDay</a></p>- Ayyan Zubair  (@AyyanicBond) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583075873940746240">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Many chose to see the glass half-full:</strong></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Not even upset that I got rejected from Harvard, because now I am officially in the University of Texas class of 2019 ???? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hookem?src=hash">#hookem</a></p>- Reilly King  (@reillynking) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583080138146996224">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rejected from Princeton! I didn't have to choose, decision was chosen for me! Vanderbilt Class of 2019! Going to be a Commodore!!!!</p>- Paolo Dumancas  (@Paolo_Dumancas) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583014254921396227">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"><strong>And some students are in the enviable position of choosing among multiple Ivies:</strong></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I've got a serious decision to make. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yale2019?src=hash">#Yale2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dartmouth19s?src=hash">#Dartmouth19s</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brown2019?src=hash">#Brown2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Columbia2019?src=hash">#Columbia2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Princeton2019?src=hash">#Princeton2019</a></p>- Trinh Truong  (@TRlNH) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583038397163372544">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>harvard yale princeton class of 2019!!! which to pick???</p>- Nora Brown  (@n0ratheexplor3r) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/583103446615769088">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-impact-brain-body-sleep-2015-2">This is what happens to your brain and body when you check your phone before bed</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="BvMjVqcjoHdZBG6tTpXy8UkhB5_46U_c" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'BvMjVqcjoHdZBG6tTpXy8UkhB5_46U_c',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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