The Bastrop girls soccer team has their new coach.
Denton Guyer’s Marc Cox was hired to take over the Bastrop girls soccer team and met with his new team for the first time Friday.
Cox takes over for Angelia Watson, who will take the girls coordinator/ head girls soccer coach job at Frisco Lone Star High School.
“I have always heard great things about the soccer program here,” Cox said. “The local sports scene here has a great atmosphere and this is just a nice area.”
Cox has a long time friendship with Angelia and Robert Watson going back to Cox’s days as head coach at Corsicana High School where Robert Watson was an assistant under Cox.
Cox has an impressive resume.
He has served at Guyer for the last two years and took his team to the Region II-4A finals where they lost to Canyon Randall.
Guyer was a sectional finalist in 2009 in its first year playing varsity soccer.
While at Corsicana, Cox led the Lady Tigers to three straight playoff appearances, including a spot in the 2006 Region II-4A quarterfinals.
Bastrop has made the playoffs in each of the last four years, but has never made it out of the first round.
Bastrop loses six seniors from this years team and will have to replace All-Central Texas forward Kattie Patterson.