The Women Who Are Changing the Face of the NFL

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On the Aaron Lynch Jersey eve of this year’s training camp, Katie Sowers was packing and about to travel from Kansas City to San Francisco for a coaching internship with the 49ers. She knew that she’d be working with the receivers, on Kyle Shanahan’s staff, through the first Arik Armstead Youth Jersey preseason game. But beyond that? “That’s a great question,” Sowers said in late July. “I’m going to be chasing that full-time career. That’s kind Carlos Hyde Womens Jersey of the scary part, but it really it sheds light on what people have to give up in order to get to where they want to go.” A year ago, Sowers left Colin Kaepernick Kids Jersey her job as the athletic director for the City of Kansas City to do her first camp coaching internship with the Falcons. They Deforest Buckner Authentic Jersey kept her on as a scouting intern for the season, and all the way through this year’s draft. It was a gamble, quitting a full-time job that she loved for internships upon internships in the ruthless business of the NFL. “A lot of people thought Earl Mitchell Jersey maybe I was crazy, but in order to really take a chance to get into this career, I had to give up a lot,” said Sowers, 31. “The times where it’s Elvis Dumervil Jersey hard are when I stop and think, Wow, I don’t really have a home right now. It’s scary, but there’s a lot of hope behind it, just because I’ve pretty much given myself to this dream that I have of working in football.”