For a few moments last week, Sylvetta Edwards said she “felt like a football player.”
The mother of Notre Dame High School rising junior cornerback Kolby McGowan wasn’t alone. More than 200 women showed up at the school for the first-ever Moms Football Safety Clinic, a free night of football education and entertainment put on by the Fighting Irish coaching staff and the Atlanta Falcons’ Kids and Pros group.
“At first I kind of hesitated to go,” said the social worker. “I thought it might be mediocre. But it was very educational and they made it fun. I don’t regret going one bit.”
Fellow Notre Dame mom Tasha Copeland, whose 15-year-old son Akil Fledge will be a junior running back, had a similar reaction.
“I went to it because I wanted to learn more about football safety,” she said. “But it was also fun. We had to jump on a tackling foam (dummy) and hit a coach’s hand.”