49ers coach Katie Sowers breaks new ground, fulfills her NFL dream

Anyone watching closely could see that Katie Sowers was leaving a trail of visual bread crumbs behind her, which would lead right to her current position in the coaching offices of the San Francisco 49ers.

There were the photos of her and her twin sister with their all-time favorite Christmas gifts: stinky second-hand college football pads and helmets from the college where her dad coached basketball. There was the Christmas wish list with “Dallas Cowboys helmet” written on every line. There was the evidence at Sowers’ “dress like your hero day” in elementary school when — amongst all the little Laura Ingalls Wilders and astronauts — she was Deion Sanders (the Cowboys version of Sanders, not the 49ers).