by admin | May 17, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Denver Broncos have hired Kelly Kleine as the executive director of football operations and special adviser to general manager George Paton, the team announced Monday. Kleine, 30, is believed to be the highest-ranking female scouting executive ever with...
by admin | Apr 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Natalia Dorantes, who was hired by the Washington Football Team as the first Latina Chief of Staff in the NFL. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Steve Waithe, a track and field coach at Northeastern,...
by admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Natalia Dorantes virtually attended the fifth annual NFL Women’s Careers in Football Forum in February, she had to introduce herself to Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera. That introduction turned into a conversation, which then blossomed into a...
by admin | Mar 23, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Her name is Nicole Lynn. If you don’t already know about her, it’s likely you will soon. Lynn is an agent and attorney and in 2019 she became only the third woman, and the first Black woman, to represent a top-three NFL draft pick when University of...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson was accused of sexual misconduct in a pair of civil lawsuits filed by two women over alleged incidents last year related to massage sessions. The initial lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Harris County, Tex.,...
by admin | Mar 6, 2021 | Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week we offer our congratulations and our top highlight to Maia Chaka, who was hired as the first Black female game official in the NFL. Following Sarah Thomas’s turn as the first female to officiate a Super Bowl we look forward to seeing more females...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NFL has hired Maia Chaka as the first Black female official in league history. She will work games during the 2021 season. “I am honored to be selected as an NFL official,” Chaka said. “But this moment is bigger than a personal accomplishment. It is an...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
It took Sheila Ford Hamp about one second to respond when asked about the potential for women in key roles in the NFL. “The sky is the limit for anything females want to do,” said Hamp, the principal owner of the Detroit Lions. Echoing that statement was Dee Haslam,...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Last month the Washington Football Team settled claims brought by members of the all-female cheerleading squad, who alleged among other things that high-level team executives passed around a lewd video of the cheerleaders. Now the team is going in a...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Sam Rapoport envisioned conducting virtually the NFL’s fifth annual Women’s Career in Football Forum, she shuddered. How could the networking, hands-on communications and camaraderie the event has encompassed occur during the COVID-19 pandemic? Read...
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