When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won Super Bowl LV Sunday night, we all became witness to another inspiring victory — Lori Locust and Maral Javadifar are the first women assistant coaches to win a Super Bowl. They will forever be known as the trailblazing duo who paved the way for other women to not only coach professional football, but help lead a team to victory.

Javadifar, age 30, became the assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Buccaneers in 2020, so this was also her second season. Before joining the team, Javadifar, known as M.J., worked as a performance physical therapist. She also has a sports background, as she played college basketball at Pace University, where she earned her bachelor of science degree in molecular biology. She then received her doctor of physical therapy degree from New York Medical College.

Javadifar grew up in Queens, NY, but her family is from Iran. In the early 1980s, her family left the Middle Eastern country to come to America. She shared in an Instagram post that when her mother was growing up, women weren't allowed to go to sporting events, so becoming one of the first female coaches to win a Super Bowl was a way to say thank you to her mother.