Jenifer King
August 6, 1984
WFA National Champion (2018)
First black woman to become a full-time coach in the NFL
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Jennifer King is an American football coach who is currently the assistant running backs coach for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL). King was one of the few women to have ever coached in the NFL and was the first black woman to become a full-time coach in the league following her promotion to assistant running backs coach in 2021. King is a former two-sport athlete at Guilford College, King has also coached women’s college basketball and has held a number of jobs while coaching, including being a police officer in North Carolina while coaching at Greensboro College, and also a part-time flight attendant for Delta Airlines in order to travel for free while playing in the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA).