Photo by Michael Starghill With almost the same edge-of-seat anxiety and optimistic hope as an athlete’s spectator parents, we’ve been intently watching and following the story of Natalie Randolph and her freshman season coaching the Coolidge Colts. From the fanfare-filled announcement and first game, to their dismal losing streak and fortune-reversing first victory, the next chapter in the story picks up tonight, when the Coolidge Colts (4-6) play their first 2010 DCIAA playoff game…

Photo by Michael Starghill Late 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…

Photo by Michael Starghill The Washington Post reported earlier this week that Natalie Randolph, a former wide receivers coach at H.D. Woodson High School in the District and wide receiver for the D.C. Divas, has been formally named to the head coaching position at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Northwest. The AP notes that today’s press conference officially announcing her hire was “the kind of attention usually reserved for the Washington Redskins,” delayed…