Freshman Isabella Garcia walked into a conference room at Kingwood Park on Jan. 14 for her appeal to play on varsity softball as a transfer. A Zoom call was set up with administrators from throughout the state of Texas.
Garcia had many people there to support her, including her mom, her softball coach and other coaches who had worked to build her case.
“My mom, she really did more of the, like, side where we needed evidence and stuff to prove, and then Coach (Jess) White and Coach (Lindsay) Gregory really just helped with like the emotional side, because it was hard getting in front of all those people and telling them what happened to me for three years,” Garcia said. “It was just a lot, so they really helped me on that.”…