ScotsCast Cade Hamner

With six collegiate All American awards between them, Ryan Brown and his wife Sloan (Serpe) Brown have cast a bright spotlight on boys and girls lacrosse in North Texas. As they sit down with ScotsCast, we discuss their playing careers, love of the game, and passion for growing the sport in the Lone Star State.

Erin Zielke - Producer

We sit down with Jamey Wright who spent 19 years as a pitcher at the highest levels of professional baseball, along with Jamey's son Jett, a junior varsity pitcher at Highland Park High School who hopes to follow in his father's footsteps.

On this episode of ScotsCast we sit down with Highland Park's new water polo coach Chris Cullen. Coach Cullen joins HP after 30 years with Denton ISD. Water polo began its inaugural year as a UIL sport in Texas with the 2022-23 academic year.

After 21 years as the Associate Head Varsity Tennis Coach at Highland Park, Tylir Jimenez was promoted to head coach in the spring of '21 after the retirement of Coach Dan Holden. During his prior 21 years, Coach Jimenez has been part of a championship run including 18 team championships and 35 individual state titles. We sit down with Coach Jimenez to talk about this championship legacy and what's to come.

Due to themes of an adult nature, listener discretion is advised for the second segment of this podcast beginning at 19:37 and ending at 33:50.

Mike Pressler, a forty-year college coaching veteran, is the new head coach of Highland Park Lacrosse. After coaching at the highest levels of the sport, including sixteen years at Duke University, sixteen years at Bryant University, and a stint leading the U.S. Men's National Team in 2010 as they took gold at the ILF World Championships, Coach Pressler will lead the Scots lacrosse program as they start the next chapter of a tradition built on championships.

Recommended References:
Fantastic Lies - Directed by Marina Zenovich
ESPN Films 30 for 30
http://www.espn.com/30for30/film/_/page/fantasticlies

It's Not About the Truth, The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives it Shattered - by  Don Yaeger with Mike Pressler
Threshold Editions 2007

On this episode of ScotsCast we sit down with Susan Baily, Girls Athletics Coordinator for HPISD. Coach Bailey oversees girls athletics from 7th grade through 12th grade for HPISD.  Coach Bailey, now in her 33rd year of coaching, shares her story of growing up in a small town in the Texas panhandle, and how her experiences in athletics led her to pursue education and coaching after graduating from Texas A&M.