What do you think it would be like to be sitting in science class and hear on the announcements that your teacher was going to be the new football coach? That would be the coolest thing! Would you feel different if that teacher was a woman? For us, it would not matter that she was a woman. The only thing that would matter would be if she was a good coach.

Natalie Randolph grew up in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Sidwell Friends in 1998 where she ran track. She was faster than any of the boys on the football team but she never had the chance to play because her father worried that she would get hurt by the boys on the other teams. Natalie went to the University of Virginia on a scholarship and was all ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) in 2003 and took second place in the 400 meter hurdles at the ACC Championship. Natalie is a wide receiver for the Washington Divas of the Independent Women's Football League.

Today Natalie is a science teacher at Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. and is the school Varsity Football Coach.

2010, by Jack & Jarred, fourth grade

Last modified 04/16/2010