Heather Marini is a coach. The quarterbacks coach for the Brown University Bears, to be precise. That's a new title, but she's been a coach practically half her life.
But because Marini is female, she is "the first female position coach in Division I history." So the question about what that distinction means to her has come up in recent days since her promotion. She claimed she still doesn't have a great answer for it. It's still a pretty good one.
"Honestly, I think it’s great that there is a first because it means there will be a ‘next,'" Marini said by phone Tuesday, a day after Brown made her promotion from offensive quality control assistant to quarterbacks coach official.