Autumn Lockwood, the First Black Woman Coach to Win a Super Bowl, Is the Champion We Need Right Now

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We’ve reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit where it’s due. Autumn Lockwood, an associate performance coach for the Super Bowl-winning Eagles, is the latest champion in our series.The Eagles didn't just win the 2025 Super Bowl; they absolutely destroyed the Chiefs.

And like any success, it was a team effort, but we do want to single out our MVP: Autumn Lockwood, an associate performance coach and the first Black woman to coach an NFL team to a Super Bowl win. (She became the first Black woman to coach at a Super Bowl when the Eagles took on the Chiefs in 2023.)This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Lockwood is a Pennsylvania native with a Master's degree in sports management from East Tennessee State, per In 2024, she about the mentality that took her from a soccer-playing criminal justice student to an up-and-coming NFL legend (she's only 31!). “Getting in the door, it's all about that opportunity and what you do with that, and how you show up every day…once you're there, it's really, OK, I'm going to observe everything.

I'm going to be a sponge. I'm going to be so hands-on. I'm going to be an extra set of hands. I'm going to do everything that I can to help this team, this staff, all these departments that go into building a championship culture,” she said.

Consider that done.This is a tremendous accomplishment and a step forward for the NFL, an organization that has traditionally lagged behind evolving cultural norms. “Her groundbreaking victory represents a seismic shift in a league that has long struggled with representation," Kimberly Wilson wrote in .