Longtime college football official Sarah Thomas is working toward becoming the first female to serve on an NFL officiating crew. Read more after the jump.
Thomas, who has officiated Conference-USA games for the last eight seasons, worked at the Colts’ minicamp this week in the NFL’s officiating development program, and she’ll be back in Indianapolis next month to work the Colts’ training camp.
League officials told the Associated Press that Thomas is the first woman to officiate on an NFL practice field through the program, and she may call some preseason games this year. If she performs well, she could be hired as a regular official in 2014.
