
The 49ers have an offensive assistant coach who works hard and brings personality no matter what.
Her name is Katie Sowers, and she's the second woman to hold a full-time NFL coaching position. She's also the first openly gay coach in the NFL.
She's aware of the grind of her job, the long hours dedicated to her job. She attends the meetings, she watches the film, and she stays up late studying the 49ers opponents.
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Her aspirations are big as well, and by the looks of it, attainable.
"I see myself as a head coach someday," she said to NBC Sports.
Sowers also said people may think that sounds crazy, but it's been a progression.
"If we look back at the way that we've built society, we have so many gender norms."
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After all, she said, people would have been shocked to know women and men could play with the same rules in basketball.
But here they are ...
"Me being a woman I don't think makes that big of a difference," she adds. "Not all male coaches are the same, not all male coaches are going to be the same."
It appears Sowers has the respect of the team as well -- you can see they don't look at her any differently than they would any other of their coaches, teachers, or teammates.
The future certainly looks bright for her, and hopefully full of progress.