Former Quality Control Coach Makes History in NFL Again

HANOVER, N.H. — Having spent the 2020 NFL season as a coaching intern with the Washington Football Team, former Dartmouth quality control coach Jennifer King has been promoted to a full-time offensive assistant, making her the first full-time Black female coach in the league's history.

King was a part of the Dartmouth coaching staff in the fall of 2019, helping the Big Green finish the season ranked 21st among FCS teams and win its conference-best 19th Ivy League title with a 9-1 overall mark, 6-1 in the Ancient Eight.

Back in September, King was on the opposite sideline from another former quality control coach at Dartmouth, Callie Brownson, who was on the Cleveland Browns' staff and the first Division I full-time female coach when she was hired by the Big Green's Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach Buddy Teevens in the fall of 2018. They became the first females to be on opposite sidelines in an NFL game that had a female official on the field. King made history again earlier this month when Washington squared off against the Bucs as it was the first game with female coaches on opposing sidelines in a playoff game.

King interned in the offseason with the Carolina Panthers under current Washington head coach Ron Rivera in both 2018 and 2019. In between those internships, she served as an assistant wide receiver coach and special teams assistant for the Arizona Hotshots in the short-lived Alliance of American Football.

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