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HERSTORIC! Volume II, No. 10
By Donni Coley
Have you ever been so excited, so proud of a moment that you were lost for words, well that happen to me last Friday, great news had spread that a woman was selected to be the head coach of a varsity high school football team. I found this out from my many friends on facebook, the news spread rapidly throughout the community of women football players and supporters. My jaws dropped. I felt proud. I clenched my fist like Tiger Woods and softly yelled, YES!
Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, D.C. made the historic move to hire Natalie Randolph as the head coach of their varsity football program.
Congratulations to Natalie Randolph!
After reading, then hearing the news I started struggling between writing about this remarkable occasion and the collective bargaining agreement in the NFL. Actually, I didn’t struggle long; I felt I should write something. How many times in my life would I get the opportunity to write about something herstoric, but what can I write that hasn’t already been written. So, I tackled with the idea for three days, which is why my blog is coming out today, instead of last Wednesday.
It came to me after waking up from a slumber sleep Thursday morning, write about how proud I am that a woman FINALLYgets the chance to crack the glass ceiling of the tightest male dominated fraternity-football.
Credibility is always an issue when women penetrate the womb of the so called man’s world. But, from what I’ve read Natalie’s experience speaks loud and clear. She played football for five-years as a wide receiver for the D.C. Divas of the Independent Women’s Football League. And she was the wide receiver coach for Washington’s H.D. Woodson High School in 2006 and 2007.
At her press conference on Friday, March 12th, she commented, “While I am proud to be part of what this all means, being female has nothing to do with it. I love football, I love football. I love teaching. I love these kids.”
There is talk about not wanting to be the first male head coach to lose to a woman head coach this upcoming season in D.C. All I can say is, in football there is a team that wins and there is a team that loses, and if it that winning team head coach happens to be a woman, take it like gentlemen.
COACHING FOOTBALL IS TOUGH ENOUGH FOR A MAN, BUT MADE FOR A WOMAN TOO.
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