Katie Sowers will be the first gay coach at the Super Bowl

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Katie Sowers will be the first LGBTQ coach and the first woman coach at the Super Bowl, after the San Francisco 49ers qualified for the biggest NFL game of the year with their victory over the Green Bay Packers yesterday.

Sowers, who is only the second woman to coach in the NFL and is the very first out LGBTQ coach in the NFL, is the assistant offensive coach to the San Francisco 49ers.

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Sowers, 33, played in the Women’s Football Alliance for the West Michigan Mayhem and the Kansas City Titans, before retiring in 2016 due to a hip injury. Upon her retirement, she got an internship with the Atlanta Falcons before moving to the 49ers in 2017.

In 2017, she came out as a lesbian.

“No matter what you do in life, one of the most important things is to be true to who you are,” Sowers said at the time.

“There are so many people who identify as LGBT in the NFL, as in any business, that do not feel comfortable being public about their sexual orientation….

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