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SPORTS: FOOTBALL: HIGH SCHOOL :
SPORTS: COACHES AND COACHING :
SPORTS: WOMEN:
Coolidge's New Coach, Natalie Randolph, Stands Out
for All the Right Reasons
Coolidge's New Coach, Natalie Randolph, Stands Out
for All the Right Reasons
By Michael Wilbon
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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The members of the search committee weren't looking to make a political
statement or even a big splash. They were trying to decide between 20 or
so candidates with nice rum, some of them long and impressive, who wanted
to be head football coach at Coolidge High in Northwest Washington. The
only problem, according to one member of the committee, was almost all of
them talked about themselves, about their credentials and qualifications,
their goals for the team.
One person, according to a committee member, stood out. She was stunningly
different, and not just because she was a she. Her presentation went into
specific details about tutorial programs and after-school mentoring, about
raising GPAs and improved SAT prep classes, as well as winning football
games. "She blew us away," the search committee member said. "It wasn't
close. A couple of minutes into her presentation it was like: 'Okay, it's
a wrap. She's the one.' "
So Natalie Randolph was hired and introduced Friday as head football coach
at Coolidge. No, it's not the first time a woman has been head coach of a
boys' varsity high school football team in America.
Jessica Poseluzny, as far back as 2004, coached the George Washington High
football team in New York City, though it ended contentiously and with a
discrimination lawsuit. Even so, the hiring of a woman to coach a football
team was met, appropriately, with a "Wow." It was national news from CNN
to ESPN.
One of Randolph's players, Oluwakemi Bamiro, said after meeting the new
coach: "It's not like she's new to us. She's here as a teacher. I've
learned a lot from her. I guess it's because she's a female coach. But if
you think about it, women coach men in other things, like music."
Cracking the gridiron ceiling
Mar 14, 2010
Christine Brennan
USA Today
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Woman named football coach updated 1 day ago
CNN's Campbell Brown speaks with Natalie Randolph, football coach at
Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington.
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DC high school football team gets female coach
By JOSEPH WHITE (AP)
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WASHINGTON The football players at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School,
Mayor Adrian Fenty and a room full of cheering staff needed only one word
to describe her: coach.
Natalie Randolph, a 29-year-old biology and environmental sciences
teacher, was introduced Friday as the coach of the school's Coolidge
Colts. She's believed to be the nation's only female head coach of a high
school varsity football team.
"While I'm proud to be part of what this all means," Randolph said, "being
female has nothing to do with it. I love football. I love football, I love
teaching, I love these kids. My being female has nothing to do with my
support and respect for my players on the field and in the classroom."
The news conference drew the kind of attention usually reserved for the
Washington Redskins and was delayed nearly two hours so Fenty, who is up
for re-election this year, could be there and proclaim "Natalie Randolph
Day" in the city.
Randolph was chosen from about 15 candidates after the previous coach
resigned. The Washington native and University of Virginia track star
played six seasons as a receiver for the D.C. Divas of the National
Women's Football Association, helping the team win the title in 2006.
She also was an assistant coach from 2006-08 at another D.C. high school,
H.D. Woodson, where opposing coaches would throw funny looks her way when
told she was on the staff.
Now she's a head coach, ready to dispel naysayers. And she doesn't plan to
do it by screaming in the kids' faces.
Woman Officially New Head HS Football Coach
7:40 pm
March 12, 2010
By Frank James
NPR
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Sports Briefing | Football
Woman Hired as Coach
By LYNN ZINSER
Published: March 11, 2010
New York Times
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football/12sportsbriefs-coach.html>
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