Natalie Randolph kicked through a glass ceiling in sports Friday when she was named head coach of the varsity football team at Washington, D.C.’s Coolidge High School.
Fresh off the heels of Black History Month and smack in the middle of Women’s History Month, Randolph, 29, is believed to be the only female head coach of a varsity football squad in the United States, which has nearly 27,000 high schools.
"I can do it," she told The Washington Post. "I'm qualified. I played the game. I know the kids. I love the kids."
Randolph, a science teacher at Coolidge, was introduced as the school’s new football coach at an event so packed, it seemed as if a new NFL head coach was being named.
