| Tennessee Titans | |
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| Title | Defensive assistant |
| Personal information | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| High school | Susquehanna Township (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) |
| College | Temple |
| Career history | |
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| Awards and highlights | |
Lori Locust (born 1964) is an Americanfootball coach who is a defensive quality control coach for theTennessee Titans of theNational Football League (NFL).
Locust was born in 1964 inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] She grew up inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania.[2] She graduated fromSusquehanna Township High School in 1982, and attendedTemple University for two years before leaving to tend to her ill father.[1]
Locust joined a semi-professional women's football team in 2004 as adefensive lineman.[1] In her fourth season for theCentral PA Vipers, she was named team captain and MVP, but retired after the next season due to a knee injury.[1]
Locust coached the Vipers after retiring from her playing career with the team.[1] She was also hired as an assistant coach at Susquehanna Township High School in 2009,[1] and coached there until 2018.[3] A men's semi-professional football team, the Central Penn Piranha, hired her as an assistant coach in 2013.[1] She coached with theCentral Penn Capitals ofAmerican Indoor Football in 2016.[2] She became the defensive line and linebackers coach and co-special teams coordinator for theLehigh Valley Steelhawks of theNational Arena League in 2017.[1] In 2018, she was a defensive line coaching intern for theBaltimore Ravens during their training camp.[1] TheBirmingham Iron of theAlliance of American Football hired her as their assistant defensive line coach for the2019 season before the league folded.[1]
Locust was hired by theTampa Bay Buccaneers as their assistantdefensive line coach in March 2019 underhead coachBruce Arians.[1] She became the first female position coach in the NFL and third female full-time assistant coach in NFL history, afterKathryn Smith andKatie Sowers.[1] Locust and assistantstrength and conditioning coach Maral Javadifar became the first female coaches to win aSuper Bowl when the Buccaneers defeated theKansas City Chiefs inSuper Bowl LV on February 7, 2021.[4]
On February 5, 2023, theTennessee Titans hired Locust as a defensive assistant. The hiring made Locust Tennessee's first full-time female coach in franchise history.[5]
Locust married, and later divorced, Andrew Locust, who playedcollege football forTemple, and they had two children together.[1]