Natalie Randolph took a landslide of publicity and more than a hundred years of sports discrimination and did something incredible with it. She shrugged it off.

Perhaps the most notable thing in meeting the only known female high school football head coach in the country is watching her embody so many of the characteristics of a coach that have become so cliche, and doing so without a voice that booms or a figure that imposes.

In March of 2010, Randolph was named the head coach at Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C., and instead of getting buried in the avalanche of media attention and scrutiny that followed, she buried herself in carrying on the school's football program while also entrenching herself in its faculty as a science teacher.

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