This is how Sowers, a fierce former quarterback who is now an assistant for the 49ers, paved her way to becoming the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl.
. One of three women who have full-time NFL coaching jobs , she is an offensive assistant on 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan’s staff. Her job consists mostly of grunt work. She helps organize practices. She spends late nights drawing plays on cards for the scout team and early mornings prepping drills. She is living her dream.
Her first step into the NFL came in 2016, during training camp with the Atlanta Falcons. It had been years in the making, spurred by a chance encounter.Sowers loved football as a kid growing up in Kansas, even without an opportunity to play. As an adult she played quarterback in the Women’s Football Alliance, an unglamorous league in which players pay to participate. She also worked as the general manager of the league’s Kansas City Titans and at the same time coached girls’ basketball.
Hammon’s example made Sowers redouble her devotion. She self-taught herself, devouring every football book she could find, especially Bill Walsh’s tomes on coaching.
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