In the Los Angeles area on Saturday, U.S. soccer legend Mia Hamm and her twin 13-year-old daughters, Ava and Grace, watched the entire college football game between Missouri and Vanderbilt. Ava is a budding lacrosse player and Grace has gotten into golf, but they watched an otherwise obscure SEC football game with their mother for a chance to witness history.
At the start of the second half, Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller became the first female to appear in a Power Five football game when she deftly executed a squib kick. And in the living room of one of the country’s most renowned athletes, an appreciation of the moment resonated.