First Female Coach Brings NFL History to Detroit

April 26, 2016

NFL’s first female coach says teammates had to tell her she was making history, there was no role model for her.

Jen Welter

Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET

Over the weekend the Detroit Tigers brought a piece of pro football history to the Metro region.

The team hosted a panel on women in sports that included the Arizona Cardinals’ Doctor Jen Welter – the first female coach in the history of the NFL.

Welter told WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter the fact she’s coaching a professional football team still comes as something of a shock to her. 

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  • Quinn Klinefelter is a Senior News Editor at 101.9 WDET. In 1996, he was literally on top of the news when he interviewed then-Senator Bob Dole about his presidential campaign and stepped on his feet.

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