Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of stories highlighting the new members of the Brownwood coaching staff for the 2020-21 school year.

Dream jobs are usually hard to come by, but for 2014 Brownwood High School graduate Alexis Mosqueda, she secured hers right after college graduation. Mosqueda, who attended Blinn College for two years, recently graduated from Tarleton with a bachelors degree in Kinesiology.

Then, in early June, Mosqueda joined the Brownwood High coaching staff where she will serve as girls soccer head coach, as well as being a cross country assistant.

“I was explaining to one of my soccer girls the other day that I don’t know how I got into my dream job in my first year of coaching and teaching,” Mosqueda said. “She thought I was being sarcastic but I told her no, this has literally always been my dream job. I have always said that I wanted to coach soccer in Brownwood and it’s just amazing that I get to be back here.”

Mosqueda earned second-team all-district honors as a junior in 2013 for a 16-6-1 Lady Lions squad that earned a share of the District 34-4A championship under head coach J.B. Gibbs. As a senior, Mosqueda repeated her second-team all-district achievement as the Lady Lions posted a 14-6-1 record and reached the second round of the playoffs in Keith Robinson’s initial season as head coach.

“Playing for Coach Gibbs, I think I get a lot of my coaching from him,” Mosqueda said. “He had such a great philosophy. Just to look back at all the things he used to do, that’s where I get my itch from.”

Mosqueda listed Gibbs as one of the main influences in her decision to pursue a coaching career.

“He really is,” Mosqueda said. “Then I had a good professor at Tarleton and she really pushed me to want to get into this field. Also, doing my internship with Coach (Heather) Hohertz, seeing her every day coming up here and seeing the girls. I already knew a lot of the soccer girls, the basketball girls and the athletes. This is where I want to be. This is everything.”

Looking ahead to soccer season, which was cut short a year ago, Mosqueda is excited about the talent coming back.

“We have a lot of good returners this year, a lot of seniors, and a lot of people that are stepping up to be the leaders that they can be and I know that they can be,” Mosqueda said. “We also have seven freshmen I believe, so it’s going to be good to have those leaders push them in the way they need to be pushed.”

As for long-term program plans, with a large freshman class and increased interest among junior high girls, Mosqueda expects the Lady Lions to continue their tradition of lengthy playoff runs.

“We have a lot of younger girls, including some incoming eighth graders that are interested, and it’s just going to be amazing,” Mosqueda said.