Zach Wagoner is new Marble Falls Middle School boys athletic coordinator
CAPTION: New Marble Falls Middle School boys athletic coordinator Zach Wagoner and wife Lauren with their son Donnie (back, center), daughter Leah (front, left) and son Jase. Courtesy photo
Marble Falls Middle School has a new boys athletic coordinator. He is Zach Wagoner.
Athletic director Keri Timmerman announced the hire June 3.
“Coach Wagoner has a great track record,” he said. “He’s excited to be around our coaches and develop athletes and make them more ready.”
Wagoner worked at a middle school at Hays Consolidated Independent School District before coming to Marble Falls.
“He’s a coach who wants to be at the middle school and develop that program,” Timmerman said. “He’s not looking for a head coaching job. He wants to coach and develop our kids. He’s someone who has a desire to lead our kids.”
Wagoner’s wish to stay on that campus will lead to stability, he added.
All hires are important for different reasons. Timmerman indicated this one isn’t any different as he wants middle school coaches to teach their athletes the same warm-up, drills and cooldown routines the high school players perform.
“We saw a lot of growth in our middle school,” he said.
He credited former boys athletic coordinator Richard Scales for much of that. Scales, who spent one year at the middle school before resigning to accept a position at Florence, worked for Marble Falls Independent School District six years.
Girls athletic coordinator Randy Humphries and Scales “worked well together,” the athletic director said.
Timmerman said Wagoner will continue that work with Humphries. He pointed out being a middle school coach isn’t easy because coaches tend to move from one sport to another from the first day of school until the sports year ends. Many times that’s in May.
“Middle school coaches are asked to do a lot,” Timmerman said. “They don’t get much of a break. They’re coaching three or four sports a year. There are natural breaks in high school. Sometimes you get a little bit of a lull. Junior high coaches don’t get that. A lot of them want to start there and move up (the career ladder). We’re creating a standard. We understand it’s the base of our foundation.”
The Marble Falls Independent School District athletic department also had three resignations. One was from athletic trainer Dr. Stephanie Thompson, who resigned to work for Burnet Consolidated Independent School District. The other two came from middle school coaches Noah Marchak and Andrew Winslow.
The department is looking to hire their replacements.
