49ers Woman Coach

She previously spent the 2017 season with the team as a seasonal offensive assistant.

49ers woman coach. Offensive assistant katie sowers will be the first female and the first openly lgbt assistant coach to work in a super bowl. She has been an offensive assistant coach with the san francisco 49ers since 2017. It s not something that i truly think about she s just the second woman to hold a full time coaching. 49ers coach katie sowers is the first openly gay and first female coach in super bowl history.

Upon her retirement sowers joined the national football league in 2016 as a coach for the atlanta falcons training camp. When katie sowers coaches for the san francisco 49ers on sunday in super bowl liv against the kansas city chiefs she ll be the first woman and openly lgbt person to do so in an nfl championship. 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. Nick wagoner espn staff writer miami on sunday san francisco 49ers offensive assistant katie sowers will become the first female member of an nfl staff to coach in a super bowl.

Sowers is in her fourth season in the nfl and is an offensive assistant with the san. The offensive assistant helped propel an offensive attack that was second in rushing and second in. The san francisco 49ers officially hired katie sowers for the 2017 season last week making her the team s first female assistant coach. She s also the second full time female assistant coach in.

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. Katie sowers is in her fifth season in the nfl and third as an offensive assistant with the 49ers. Now sowers is making history herself becoming the first woman and openly gay person to coach in a super bowl.