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A female soccer player and homecoming queen from LSU has missed the cut for the football team after her tryout as a kickoff specialist, coach Les Miles said Tuesday.
Senior Mo Isom, the former goalkeeper for the LSU women's soccer team, will be invited to try out as a kicker in August as she continues her bid to be the second female to play football at the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported.
"We reviewed her skill, the things she can do and do well," Miles said. "We kind of felt like there's four guys on the team right now that would be ahead of anybody that tried out the other day, including Mo. I told her that today.
"She's going to go back and concentrate on extra points and field goals. She did not want to take that she couldn't make the team. She said, 'Do I get another opportunity if I get a lot better?' I said, 'Sure.' "
The 22-year-old Isom, who stands 6 feet tall, played goalkeeper for four years at LSU and was selected to the SEC All-Freshman Team in 2008.
She once scored a goal from a 90-yard free kick.
Isom's bid to make the gridiron comes after an attempt last summer by freshman Lauren Luttrell at Virginia Tech. Luttrell, who was a kicker for her high school team, was impressive enough that head coach Frank Beamer invited her to return to spring practice.
There have been a handful of female kickers in college football history, but Katie Hnida is the only female kicker to record a point at the FBS level, doing so for New Mexico in 2003.
