West Texas Coaching Carousel
from San Angelo Standard-Times
About this time of year, the high school football coaching carousel is supposed to be grinding to a halt - but apparently not yet. Usually in January and February there's a bunch of turnover in the coaching ranks when one coach takes a new job and it touches off a whole series of moves. But this year things are still shaking out. More

Cron Resigns as Mansfield Timberview Coach
from Fort Worth Star-Telegram
One of the most successful coaches in Texas high school football will coach his five grandchildren and not Mansfield Timberview next season. Terry Cron, 60, said he wants to spend more time with his family and has decided to retire after a 37-year career that includes three state championships at the 1A, 2A and 3A levels. More

Poteet's Hebert Soars to Prominence
from San Antonio Express-News
An offseason move-in from Louisiana, Adam Hebert told his new coaches at Poteet that he'd been one of the fastest juniors in his old home state. “We were like, ‘Yeah, right,'” track and field coach Carlos Saenz said. Then Hebert beat J.J. Moses, Poteet's fastest athlete, in an informal footrace, prompting Saenz to double-check Hebert's claims on the Internet. Sure enough, his name immediately popped up, most notably for placing second in the 100-meter dash, third in the 200 and third in the long jump at last year's Class 5A state meet. More

Waxahachie Celebrates 100-Year-Old Baseball Field
from Texas Cable News
There was a gathering of former Waxahachie baseball players at Paul Richards Park recently that had special meaning. The players were all part of a high school team that played in the 1940s. They were there to not only celebrate their era, but 100 years of baseball at Waxahachie High School. The school first starting playing games in 1909, but historians have discovered that Waxahachie had baseball as early as 1885, long before an organized public school team began to play. More

Softball Team has Restored Pride to Eastside
from Austin American-Statesman
With the high school prom set for next Saturday, the Eastside Memorial softball team has plenty of things to worry about in the upcoming days. Making the state playoffs isn't among its problems. More

Mood Changes for McKinney Softball Team
from Dallas Morning News HS Game Time
When asked about the playoffs, McKinney junior shortstop Ashley Thomas offers a sports cliché – "We're just taking it one game at a time." But then she admits that the team looks ahead sometimes. "We do like to talk about the playoffs," Thomas said. Hard to blame them, because McKinney will be in the playoffs this year. That's not a big achievement for some teams, but consider where McKinney (22-8-1, 9-3 in District 9-4A) has been recently. More

Coaches on the Move at Georgetown, Lockhart
from Austin American Statesman
Coming off a playoff season, Georgetown High School hired a boys basketball coach with ample postseason experience. Former Frisco Centennial head coach Russell Miller comes to Georgetown with a career record of 152-108 over seven seasons, including three playoff appearances. Miller replaces Kenneth Hoffpauir, who went 22-12 in his final season and recently accepted an assistant coach's position at McMurry University in Abilene. In other coaching news, Lockhart football coach Troy Moses has accepted a position as athletic director and varsity coach in Beeville. Moses went to high school at nearby Orange Grove and his wife, Kim, a Lockhart teacher, is from Alice. More