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Female coach takes over HS varsity football
Washington Times ^ | 03/12/10 | Teresa M. Walker

Posted on 03/12/2010 6:01:28 PM PST by jerry557

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: coach; female; fenty; football; highschool

1 posted on 03/12/2010 6:01:28 PM PST by jerry557
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To: jerry557

Only here for the pictures. Will someone be kind enough to oblige me?


2 posted on 03/12/2010 6:04:07 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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To: jerry557

biology and environmental sciences....

by next year she will be in cuffs for having sex with players.... possibly all of them. lol.

//just kidding


3 posted on 03/12/2010 6:05:08 PM PST by GeronL (I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
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To: jerry557

"Do you know how to get good penetration?!"
4 posted on 03/12/2010 6:06:11 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: jerry557

Sex means nothing.

Unless it does.

Women will tell you where the difference is.


5 posted on 03/12/2010 6:06:57 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: James C. Bennett

How can she go around the locker room snapping their butts with a wet towel?


6 posted on 03/12/2010 6:07:13 PM PST by omega4179 (Pelosi: We Must Pass Obamacare So Artists Can Quit Their Day Jobs)
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To: James C. Bennett

Video at the Post site

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031202576.html

She’s all huggy with the players already.... uh hum


7 posted on 03/12/2010 6:07:25 PM PST by GeronL (I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
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8 posted on 03/12/2010 6:08:30 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: jerry557

Hell, Watch Blind Side and get back to me. That lady could do it. And she is for real.


9 posted on 03/12/2010 6:10:38 PM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: omega4179

By walking around the locker room snapping their butts with a wet towel. ;-)


10 posted on 03/12/2010 6:12:24 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: jerry557

Good for her, I hope it works out.


11 posted on 03/12/2010 6:27:58 PM PST by rabidralph ("Precedenting" is a lot tougher than community organizing.)
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To: jerry557

No different then men coaches for girls teams. I saw her on the evening news about an hour ago...


12 posted on 03/12/2010 6:28:06 PM PST by tubebender (Tagline... I don't need no stinkin Tagline)
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To: James C. Bennett

"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."

13 posted on 03/12/2010 7:15:22 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Loved that movie. A young Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.


14 posted on 03/12/2010 9:24:08 PM PST by crazydad (What)
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