CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas High School Coaches Assocation named CCISD Athletics Director Brenda Marshall as its 2024 Jody Conradt Award winner Tuesday.
Marshall has been the CCISD Athletics director since 2004. The award is named after the University of Texas women's basketball coach with 900 career victories under her belt, including an NCAA title.
What makes the award more symbolic is that before her tenure at UT, Conradt coached at Sam Houston State University and UT-Arlington -- the latter where Marshall played softball for her team that finished 8th in the College World Series in 1976.
Marshall, a Corpus Christi native, has been a part of the district's athletics administration team since 1986, when she was only one of five women working in Texas high school athletics.
As a former female athlete herself, Marshall has devoted her career to advocate for the girls and women who have come since.
"I told my mom, when I graduated, I said 'I love you, but I will never come back home until I get a position in athletic administration and come back and make a difference for what we didn't have'. I actually told her that in 1973," Marshall told KIII in 2021.
Marshall will be honored during the THSCA's Hall of Honor banquet on July 20th at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.
Sports director Chris Thomasson contributed to this developing story. 3NEWS will have updates as they become available.
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