Titans rent Lori Locust as 1st feminine full-time coach

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans are including feminine soccer coach Lori Locust to their employees as a defensive assistant.

Locust is the primary girl to be a full-time coach in Titans franchise historical past.

“Blessed to be becoming a member of the Titans as a part of coach [Mike] Vrabel’s employees,” Locust said via a Twitter post. “Cannot wait to get began on this subsequent section of my teaching profession.”

Locust was employed because the assistant defensive position coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2019, making her the primary feminine place coach within the NFL and the third feminine full-time assistant coach. She broke into the NFL as a defensive position teaching intern with the Baltimore Ravens in 2018.

Earlier than coming to the NFL, Locust was an assistant defensive position coach for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Soccer in 2019. Locust first began teaching after enjoying defensive position in a semi-pro ladies’s soccer league the place she was named MVP and crew captain of the Central PA Vipers.