INDIANAPOLIS — In 2017, Lori Locust once sat in the same chairs as the 41 women who took part in the seventh annual NFL Women’s Forum held Tuesday afternoon at the JW Grand Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis.
The event looks much different than it did in its inception, and instead of being one of the participants aspiring to be in her shoes, the new Tennessee Titans defensive quality control coach sat on a panel as one of six female coaches in the NFL, hoping to inspire the next generation.
“When we did the first forum, and even before that, it was a very isolating experience,” Locust told The Philadelphia Inquirer after participating in the panel. “I never saw another woman the first five or six years of coaching; I went to a Glazer Convention in Baltimore, and I went there with a high school staff, there were so many men that they had literally changed the women’s bathroom on the conference floor to a man’s bathroom as well because there were no women.
