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Women Empowerment for the First Ever Woman Coach of Arizona Cardinals

Arizona Cardinals welcomed Jen Welter, the first-ever female coach in National Football League History.

"The heart factor, the intelligent factor, being the person with the motor that will never quit factor." Welter said from the press conference held Last Tuesday when she was being introduced to the public according to the article of NBC News.

Also from the article, Welter wants to teach players that the "size isn't everything and that they can "overcome any limitation."  

Bruce Arians, the Arizona Cardinals head coach, organized the ensemble of different mix of coach assistants and also was the one to make Welter part of the team.

Arians said in the article of AZCentral, "I wanted to open that door." 

He also said from the article that, "Coaching is nothing more than teaching. The one thing I've learned from players: all they want to know is 'How you going to make me better? If you can make me better, I don't (care) if you're the Green Hornet. I'll listen."

Welter will be working as an inside linebacker coach intern for camp training and preseason. She will be working this summer alongside seven coaching interns.

This event of becoming the "first" woman to coach a men's football league was already a third for Welter. She also has been the special teams coach and linebacker for the Indoor Football League's Texas Revolution and she also had the position of Revolution's running back in Jan 2014.

Welter played 14 seasons as a Rugby player before for Boston College and also was part of Team USA and has won gold medals in the International Federation of American Football's (IFAF) Women's World Championship.

Welter is truly is an inspiration to every woman who bounds limitation especially in a "coined" career for men.

She gave a meaningful message to little girls or women that simply want to partake on this masculine industry, "I want little girls everywhere to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football," Welter said from an interview last year with NBC Today.


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