School in July? That’s what the Lake Highlands football coaching staff will be doing next week. The staff will be in San Antonio for the annual THSCA convention, commonly known as “coaching school.”
The convention is a great networking time for coaches of all sports and will also feature lectures on professional development, coaching strategies and the like. Every year the event features celebrity speakers as well. Some of the bigger names this year include Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville, Oregon football coach Chip Kelly and Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz.
For the Lake Highlands staff, coaching school also serves as a sort of retreat before the start of two-a-days on Aug. 9. (Yes, the start of football is just around the corner.) That’s more important this year than most with some new assistants joining the staff.
“The big thing for us, it’s not necessarily the X’s and O’s, it’s more the camaraderie,” LH head coach Scott Smith said. “It’s an opportunity for us as coaches to get away and bond a little bit, to set the stage for two-a-days. It’s just some time to get together as a group.”