CPS Coaches Make History As First Female Head Coaching Duo To Face Off In Varsity Contest
Sunday, September 18, 2022
From CPS Athletics.com:
History wasn’t lost on Jouscelyn Mayfield and Konesha Rhea as they came to midfield for an emotional embrace after their Fenger and DuSable boys high school football teams’ September 15 clash at Gately Stadium.
The score was insignificant to both as the two trailblazers went down in Illinois high school boys football history, and quite possibly national folklore, as the first black female head coaches to compete against one another on opposing sidelines in boys football.
“There are no losers,” Mayfield said to a slew of local TV and print reporters after her Fenger Titans defeated Rhea’s DuSable Panthers 50-0 in Chicago Public League (CPL) play. “That scoreboard doesn’t tell the importance of what happened here tonight.”
Finish the story here and see more on the historic event from the NFHS below: