{"id":43012,"date":"2020-02-03T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=43012"},"modified":"2021-04-28T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:23:59","slug":"nfl-coach-katie-sowers-shatters-several-glass-ceilings-at-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/nfl-coach-katie-sowers-shatters-several-glass-ceilings-at-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Coach Katie Sowers Shatters Several Glass Ceilings at Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_xPn4DXIj5w\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her team may not have won Super Bowl LIV, but NFL coach Katie Sowers just scored a significant victory for women all the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katie_Sowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sowers<\/a>, the offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers, became the first woman to ever coach a professional football team in the Super Bowl when she helped lead her team in the big game. She is also the first openly LGBTQ coach ever to work in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><i>[Related: <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/how-brittany-rose-more-than-cheer-uses-cheerleading-leadership-development-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>This Former Ravens Cheerleader is Using Her Sport to Teach Leadership to Girls<\/i><\/a><i>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a victory for representation that was spotlighted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xPn4DXIj5w&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft ad<\/a> highlighting the importance of women trailblazers and role models. Sowers herself is featured in the commercial, talking about her lifelong love of football and the lack of future she saw in the sport for herself due to the dearth of women on and off the field. \u201cI never saw an opportunity in football because I\u2019d never seen a female coach before,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to her, it will be much easier for future generations of women to picture themselves occupying leadership roles in sports. \u201cWe have all these assumptions about what women do in life, and what men do,\u201d she says. \u201cAll it takes is one, and then it opens the door for so many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve always said that women cannot be what they cannot see. And we\u2019re cheering for Sowers as she makes it possible for women to imagine even more possibilities for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><i>[Related: <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/anjali-shah-pifa-foundation-soccer-india-empowering-young-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>She\u2019s Ensuring A Sound Future For Young Girls Through the Power of Sports<\/i><\/a><i>]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers is the first out coach in the National Football League\u2019s history, and the first woman coach to ever lead a team in the Super 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