Photo by Michael StarghillLate Friday night, Natalie Randolph and the Coolidge Colts football team earned what many thought would never come: their first win. After five months of anticipation and six more weeks of winless play, D.C.’s first standing female high school football coach led her team to a 48-12 home victory over the Anacostia Indians (0-5). Appropriately, the win was capped off with an iconic water bucket dumping on Randolph.
As previously reported, Randolph’s appointment came amid a flurry of media coverage and fanfare, particularly by Mayor Adrian Fenty who declared the day of the announcement as “Natalie Randolph Day.” Randolph’s employment was seen as a boon for female equality in sports as she joined a tiny club of other women football coaches in the nation.
