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49ers’ Katie Sowers gets apology from college that almost derailed her coaching career before it began

Nothing like a world-wide audience and a 100-yard-long platform to encourage people to do the right thing.

Last Wednesday, three days after the San Francisco 49ers punched their ticket to Super Bowl LIV, the right thing was done to Katie Sowers.

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Surely you’ve heard Sowers’ story. How she became just the third woman to be hired as an assistant coach by an NFL team. An offensive assistant for the 49ers, Sowers has been getting plenty of face time via media outlets and commercials during the 49ers’ run to the Super Bowl.

So high-profile and unlikely has Sowers’ journey been, that the private liberal arts college where she played basketball has issued a belated apology.