WIS-Lori Locust | Tampa Bay Buccaneers

As the #NFL wraps let’s celebrate these pioneer women! Next up, Lori Locust 💫

1st female coaches to win Super Bowl
#LoriLocust coached the Vipers after retiring from her playing career with the team. She was also hired as an assistant coach at Susquehanna Township High School in 2009, and coached there until 2018. The Central Penn Piranha, hired her as an assistant coach in 2013. She coached with the Central Penn Capitals of American Indoor Football in 2016. She became the defensive line and linebackers coach and co-special teams coordinator for the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks of the National Arena League in 2017. In 2018, she was a defensive line coaching intern for the Baltimore Ravens during their training camp. The Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football hired her as their assistant defensive line coach for the 2019 season before the league folded.

Locust was hired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as their assistant defensive line coach in March 2019. She became the first female position coach in the NFL and third female full-time assistant coach in NFL history. Locust and assistant strength and conditioning coach Maral Javadifar became the first female coaches to win a Super Bowl when the Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV on February 7, 2021.

She is currently hired with the Tennessee Titans as their first full time female coach.

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