49ers Assistant Coach Katie Sowers

Five things to know about 49ers assistant katie sowers the first female coach in super bowl history 1.

49ers assistant coach katie sowers. Getty katie sowers is an offensive assistant for the san francisco 49ers. She was promoted to her current position of an offensive assistant coach in 2018. Sowers began her american football career playing in the women s football alliance. Upon her retirement sowers joined the national football league in 2016 as a coach for the atlanta falcons training camp.

Sowers 33 was originally hired full time as the 49ers offensive assistant working with the wide receivers in 2017 becoming just the second female coach in the nfl at the time. Katie sowers is in her fifth season in the nfl and third as an offensive assistant with the 49ers. Sowers became only the second female to hold a full time nfl coaching position and the. Offensive assistant katie sowers will be the first female.

San francisco 49ers assistant coach katie sowers has been groundbreaking for the nfl in a number of ways. She previously spent the 2017 season with the team as a seasonal offensive assistant. Teams do not typically release the. Katie sowers is the super bowl s first female and openly.

The moment arrived when an offensive assistant for the san francisco 49ers stepped onto the stage as the nfl opened its championship week. As i was finishing college. She was once barred from coaching an amateur basketball team because she was a lesbian. Sowers a former member of the 2013 united states women s national football team joined shanahan s staff the next season in san francisco as part of the 49ers bill walsh minority fellowship and worked with the team s wide receivers.

She has been an offensive assistant coach with the san francisco 49ers since 2017. When the 49ers take on the kansas city chiefs in super bowl liv early next month a san francisco assistant coach will be making history.