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Lassiter Alumna Aims to Kick for LSU

College senior Mo Isom is a soccer star, but she wants to leave her mark on the football field as well.

The next placekicker for the LSU football team could be a graduate of —a female graduate of Lassiter.

Senior Mo Isom plays goalie for the Louisiana State University women’s soccer team and entered this season already holding the school record for most wins (31) and shutouts (22), according to an article in the football program from Saturday’s LSU game.

Now she hopes to earn a place on another page in that program: the roster.

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Isom was booting football kickoffs at LSU’s indoor practice facility Monday, Baton Rouge TV station WAFB reported.

The TV station said Isom, 21, spent the past eight months working out with a long snapper and kicker who are seniors on the Tiger football team, with an eye toward trying out for the team next spring. She even kicked a 51-yard field goal in a workout, although she wasn’t wearing pads.

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Isom showed a powerful leg as a college freshman in 2008 when she scored a goal from 90 yards out.

LSU head coach Les Miles and his staff plan to give Isom a fair shot at making the football team, New Orleans TV station WDSU reported.

The 2008 graduate of Lassiter would have one year of eligibility left for the football Tigers.

Her official LSU biography shows that the 6-foot-tall Isom is used to achieving her goals, from soccer to academics to a radio show on 790 The Zone to modeling, acting and beauty pageants.

She also received the Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award in June 2010 for overcoming great odds to succeed in academics and athletics, including the death of her father, John, in January 2009 and a nearly fatal auto accident in November 2009, WAFB said.

Planning to complete her soccer career before moving on to football, Isom’s senior season includes a home game against the University of Georgia on Oct. 2.

But even if the Northeast Cobb resident becomes the latest member of the small club of women to play major college football, she won’t get to kick in front of her hometown fans: LSU doesn’t play Georgia next year. Unless, of course, the Bayou Bengals earn a spot in the SEC Championship Game in the Georgia Dome.


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