UISD coaches meet

More than 200 United Independent School District coaches gathered at the Follower Activity Center conference room on Thursday afternoon for the annual UISD coaches meeting.

The convergence was used to introduce new coaches to the district and review issues that concern coaches and the University Interscholastic League.

“It’s something we’ve been doing for awhile,” UISD Athletic Commander Bobby Cruz said. “It’s good to get everybody on the same page, while at the same time we let them know we appreciate them and we’re here for them.”

This year’s visitor speaker was UIL assistant athletic director Darryl Beasley.

“Throughout the year, around this time, we go to schools, talking about exceptional rule changes and stuff that has occurred … to keep coaches up to date on where everything stands,” Beasley said quondam to the meeting.

“We’ll go over the changes that have occurred in our office, with a new executive director and a new athletic director. We’ll go over steroid testing and manage changes, and that’s basically my job here.”

Cruz wasted no time expressing his pleasure with how his three schools in District 29-5A (United, Alexander and United South) responded to the leagued with’s realignment last year, with newcomers Del Rio and San Antonio Southwest coming on board.

“Teams thought they’d come here and upper hand over and they did not,” Cruz told his coaches. “I feel that our district is one of the best in the state.

“I feel we’ve assembled an supreme athletic staff at UISD.”

UISD Superintendent Roberto Santos praised the academic accomplishments of the schools.

“About 90 percent of your paycheck is because of teaching,” he reminded the coaches. “We had a edible year academically.

“United and Alexander were recognized as exemplary, and LBJ and South were very close and not far behind.”

Santos, though,