BHS Alum Jesse Austin is now a do-it-all all-teacher coaching four sports: football, junior high wrestling, high school wrestling and track and field.
“First thing that comes to mind is it’s very time-consuming, a lot of time away from home and weekends and it’s a lot of mentally bouncing around,” Austin said. “Trying to get focused and re-teach myself things going from this sport to the next sport and moving on from rules and whatnot, time-consuming but can be fun.”
Austin went to BHS playing all of the sports he is currently coaching.
“A part of it is I feel a little indebted to the coaches I had at Baldwin and a little indebted to the kids at this school because I’m from here I played sports here,” Austin said. “The whole reason I have a college degrees and things like that are because of my coaches and going to Baldwin so I kind of feel like I owe it to Baldwin and I owe it to kids and parents, things like that just trying to give back what was given to me.”
Out of all the sports Austin coaches, he does have two favorites for different reasons.
“Football is by far my favorite sport, it’s my passion, I would say probably the most enjoyable and rewarding one is maybe coaching throws,” Austin said, “because I get to visually see kids get better, football just has so many X’s and O’s and you’re constantly scheming against another coach and their program.”
When coaching that many sports, Austin has been fortunate to coach many people.
“I play three sports for Coach Austin and it’s been an honor to play for him,” 8th grader Jett Rood said. “He is a great coach and fun to play for.”