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‘I’m Here To Help Us Win’: Meet Katie Sowers, The First Woman To Coach In A Super Bowl

Paul Bois
‘I’m Here To Help Us Win’: Meet Katie Sowers, The First Woman To Coach In A Super Bowl
Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group

If last year’s Super Bowl made history for featuring the first female referee, this year’s Super Bowl Sunday plans to top that by featuring the first woman to ever coach in the big game: 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers.

“Sunday evening, Sowers will become the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl,” reports the Boston Globe. “One of three women who have full-time NFL coaching jobs (the Tampa Bay Buccaneers employ the other two), she is an offensive assistant on 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan’s staff.”

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