Angela Baker, who is an offensive quality control coach this season, is the Giants' inaugural recipient of the Rosie Brown Minority Coaching Fellowship. Baker joins Laura Young as the first women to hold coaching positions in Giants history. Young is the team's director of coaching operations.
Baker spent the 2021 season at the University of Redlands in California, where she helped coach the kickers and punters and was a defensive quality control coach.
In the spring of 2020, Baker spent three weeks with the Cleveland Browns coaching staff as part of the NFL's Bill Walsh Diversity Coach Fellowship program. She was one of six aspiring coaches, including two women, to join the Browns' staff as part of the fellowship. The fellows participated in the team's offseason practices, which were limited to virtual meetings because of the pandemic.
Baker worked with Cleveland's quarterbacks, including Baker Mayfield, by analyzing film, studying the playbook and identifying weaknesses of the team's quarterback play. She also learned coaching techniques from offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt. Baker specifically addressed team unity and cohesiveness through technology interactions during the pandemic.
Baker will participate in the 2022 IFAF Women's World Football Championship in Finland this summer. A wide receiver, Baker was also a member of the 2017 IFAF World Championship team that brough home a gold medal. Baker was a seven-time Women's Football Alliance (WFA) All-American while competing for the Pittsburgh Passion Women's Professional Football Team. The full-contact football squad won the Independent Women's Football League National Championship in 2014 and 2015 and she was named the National Conference Offensive Player of the League in 2016.
After a three-year hiatus from school, Baker graduated from Slippery Rock University with a B.S. in physical activity and fitness management and a minor in coaching.
In her role this season as a quality control coach, Baker has regular and direct contact with the head coach Brian Daboll, offensive coordinator Mike Kafka and quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney.
The Club Coaching Fellowship Program gives minorities who hope to coach in the NFL an opportunity to work full-time on a team's staff for one or two seasons.
The Giants' Minority Coaching Fellowship is named in honor of Rosie Brown, one of the greatest players and arguably the best offensive lineman in Giants history. A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 1975, Brown played for the Giants from 1953 through 1965 after joining the team as a 27th round draft choice from Morgan State. He was a starting tackle for 13 consecutive seasons, a period in which he was named to nine Pro Bowls and selected All-NFL eight consecutive seasons. Brown helped the Giants win the NFL title in 1956 and advance to the championship game in 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1963. He was immediately named assistant line coach by the Giants after a phlebitis condition forced him to retire in 1966. Brown continued his Giants affiliation as a scout from 1971 until his death on June 9, 2004.
