Sarah Thomas will cap her sixth NFL season by becoming the first female to officiate the Super Bowl in NFL history. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)NEW YORK – Sarah Thomas will cap her sixth NFL season by becoming the first female to officiate the Super Bowl in NFL history. “Sarah Thomas has made history again as the first female Super Bowl official,” said Troy Vincent, Sr., the NFL's executive vice resident of football operations. "Her elite performance and commitment to excellence has earned her the right to officiate the Super Bowl. This will be the first Super Bowl for Coleman as well as Thomas and second for Cheffers, Bryan, Baynes, Hall and Paganelli.

Sarah Thomas, a breast cancer survivor, has broken a world-record by swimming the English Channel four times non-stop, in just over 54 hours. (CNN) - An American cancer survivor has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times non-stop. "Huge congratulations to Sarah Thomas on swimming the English Channel 4x continuously." He added: "Sarah Thomas has overcome 5 major hurdles to become the first person to swim the English Channel four times non-stop: 1. During the swim, Thomas relied on a diet of protein recovery drinks filled with electrolytes and caffeine, she told the BBC.

While Eastin was the first woman to officiate an NFL regular season game, she wasn't the first full-time female official in NFL history. That honor goes to Sarah Thomas, who was hired by the NFL in April 2015. Already the first woman to officiate a major college football game, the first to officiate a college bowl game, and the first to officiate in a Big Ten stadium, she officiated her first regular season NFL game on Sept. 13, 2015. Hide Caption