In her fifteenth year teaching at Randall, World Geography teacher Jan Weston, will become the new JV softball coach.

This will be her first year coaching JV although she did coach the freshmen team a few years back as well as wrapped up a season for former coach, Megan Hight.  She was first exposed to the game through her daughter who played softball throughout high school and college and is currently the head coaching as a career.

“My connection with softball is basically through my daughter. She is the real deal,” Weston said. “They think because my daughter is really good, I must be.”

At the end of last year, a few softball girls told Weston they heard she was going to be the new softball coach. She told them she didn’t know what they were talking about.  By June she did.

“It all started at a Texas Rangers game,” Weston said. “My phone was ringing and I saw it was Mr. Williams and I thought, ‘those girls knew all along.’”

On August 6^th, Weston had to have surgery on her foot, so she is currently using a knee walker to put as little strain on her foot as possible. She will have to have another surgery right after Halloween but “should be good to when the season starts around January.”

“When the girls start with their mile or two before practice, I would go out and run with them when I was helping out,” Weston said. “Now, with my foot, I can’t and feel like I’m just on the sidelines. I want them to know I would never ask them to do something I wouldn’t do.”

Being on JV last year, tenth-grader Aubrey Barker described Coach Hight as a “second mom.” She now has Weston as a teacher and a coach. As a teacher Weston is “cool and laid back, it will be fun to get to know her as a coach.”

“Through softball you get to know students on a much more personal level than a classroom level,” Weston said. “You get to laugh and joke with them, I love it. I love the girls and I love the game.”