WHITEHOUSE, Ohio — Sloane Fults isn't taking the road most athletes do.
On the soccer pitch, Sloane is a goalkeeper; the position that uses hands more than any other player on the field.
"Sloane, she's a committed, very passionate player, about her program, about her team, her everything," said Mike Strauss, soccer coach and head of the junior varsity team.
Excelling at goalie would be impressive enough, but in addition to her role in the soccer program, she's also a kicker for the Anthony Wayne football program. A typical afternoon for Fults includes spending her first hour after school practicing field goal kicks at Schaller Memorial Stadium, followed by an hour and a half of soccer training on campus.
"It's usually very busy for me," Fults said. "But I like to have things busy."
Since junior high Fults has been playing football for the Anthony Wayne Generals, seeing time at the skill positions. In high school she started focusing on kicking, the position that uses your feet more than any other player on the field.
Fults is usually behind fellow kickers Will Horn, Isaac Stachowiak and Nate Yokum, all of whom also play soccer for the boys program, on the depth chart.
When Anthony Wayne was leading Napoleon 34-10 with 2:11 left in the fourth quarter Friday night, the sophomore kicker finally got her chance to show what she could do in a game.
"It was really scary for me. As a sophomore, I had never kicked in a varsity game," Fults said. "And as the first girl, the only thing that's going through my head was don't miss in front of hundreds of people."
With that kick, Sloane was the first female to record a point in Anthony Wayne football's 75-year history.
"I think the magnitude of that kick speaks to any young girl that has something they want to accomplish," said Andy Brungard, Generals head football coach. "Whether it's something that's a traditional path or an untraditional path, and paving their way to make that happen. She earned her opportunity on Friday."
It was an historic kick for Anthony Wayne, but Sloane isn't thinking about history. She's thinking about the future.
"It feels good, but the thing that's most important about being the first is making sure that I'm not the last," Fults said. "I don't want to be known as the first and last. I just want to be known as the first."
The Generals' next football game is on Friday, Sept. 20 when they host the Start Spartans.
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