Woman coach breaks glass ceiling in college football

(CNN)As a woman working in a male-dominated field, Callie Brownson isn’t a stranger to the word “no.” But since getting a “yes,” her ascension has been swift.

Less than a week before Dartmouth’s first football game of the season, head coach Buddy Teevens hired Brownson as an offensive quality control coach, making her the first full-time female football coach at the NCAA Division I level.
“He saw something in me and took it a step further that so many of his colleagues weren’t maybe willing to do or even in the right framework to do,” Brownson told CNN Sport’s Coy Wire.

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