Looks like good hire but the video mentions her last role as coaching the defensive line and this role is working with receivers. Is this a full time position?
From the New Haven Register article it sounds like she really wanted to work with Mora. Welcome aboard Mickey
Looks full time, but not on the field. She, herself, seems nervous about the move to offense, but knows it's part of her development.
She was going to be one of the few women in the country, and even fewer women of color, working on a male-dominated Division I college football staff, carrying the weight of a whole genre on her shoulders.
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Which is of paramount importance as UConn installs its new offense, which was the side of the ball that was foreign to Grace throughout her career as a player, a coach and a trainer.
“I was horrified,” she admits, “but apparently, all the good coaches do this at least once in their career – they switch. But I trained some NFL athletes and a lot of them were defensive backs and linebackers. So, it’s nice that I knew enough about DBs and linebackers to now incorporate that into my wide receivers’ study. It’s not as terrifying as I thought it was going to be.
“But it’s spring ball, at a new facility with a new playbook, in a new position on a new side of the ball, with a new head coach --- you kind of feel like you’re drowning, until you look up and realize you’ve been swimming the whole time.”
