from Jon Cole with Presto Sports: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jennifer King, a 2006 graduate of Guilford College, made NFL history on Friday as she continues her climb up the professional football coaching ladder. According to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport, King became the first full-time African American female coach in league history when she was named as a full-time offensive assistant for the Washington Football Team. King’s promotion to this position came after spending the 2020 season as a coaching intern. King was a two-sport athlete during her collegiate career, competing in both basketball and softball for the Quakers, while…
from www.espn.com: CLICK HERE The Washington Football Team will promote Jennifer King to a full-time offensive assistant, a source confirmed to ESPN, making her the first Black woman to be a full-time coach in the NFL. King spent this past season as a full-time intern, working with running backs coach Randy Jordan. Washington’s running backs received strong production from third-down back J.D. McKissic, who caught a career-best 80 passes for 589 yards and rushed 85 times for 365. Also, rookie Antonio Gibson rushed for 795 yards and 11 touchdowns as he transitioned from playing mostly receiver in college. King also…
Former Pride Assistant Coach Jennifer King Coaches With Carolina Panthers from Wes Gullett, Sports Information Director for the Greensboro College Pride GREENSBORO, N.C. – A former Greensboro College assistant women’s basketball coach is getting the opportunity to do something she has always wanted to do: coach NFL football. King, currently head women’s basketball coach at Johnson & Wales (N.C.) in Charlotte, is serving as a coaching intern with the Carolina Panthers during the team’s off-season training activities and minicamp. King told The Charlotte Observer that it has been an amazing experience for her, as she had always watched the Panthers…
She grew up as an up-and-coming athlete out of Reidsville, N.C., and she is taking her experience as a football player, in a women’s football league to the Carolina Panthers practice field, where Jenifer King serves as a Carolina Panthers football coaching intern….She is working with the wide receivers and she hopes to one day become a football offensive coordinator…..King used to look through the fence, watching the Carolina Panthers practicing football, knowing she may never get on the field to have a chance to coach an NFL football team, and when she was trying to get in and get…