Lori Locust

Lori Locust (born April 27, 1964) is the defensive line coach for the Birmingham Iron.

Locust is a graduate of Susquehanna Township High School in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. She began playing football when she was 40 on a women's team in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. When she was sidelined by a knee injury, she turned to coaching her team, and later joined several other teams as an assistant, including the varsity team at her alma mater.

Locust has coached for the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks of the National Arena League, the Keystone Assault of the Women's Football Alliance, the East Preps talent showcase, and the DMV Elite community football program. In the fall of 2018 she interned with the Baltimore Ravens under a Bill Walsh Diversity Fellowship.

References

• Bean, Josh (February 4, 2019) "‘I’m a coach who happens to be a woman’: Meet Iron’s gender-bending assistant coach." The Birmingham News