Coach Aislinn Garza

Sotomayor HS #SotoCats | Coach 🥎🏋🏽‍♀️ | MS, USAW | GEAUX TIGERS 💜💛 | ΣΓΡ 💙💛 | Shooters shoot 📸 | Former: SA Spurs, Hou Astros

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

The BEST!

[Coach Liz Oyervides @DHS_CoachO]

New Year. Same Mission! 😤 Privileged to have been given the opportunity to be a @THSCAcoaches Brand Ambassador once again! I love what I do & the coaching community I do it with! 💫 @FBISDAthletics #THSCABrandAmbassador #BeGREAT

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Ayeeeeee!!!

[Sotomayor Wildcat Football @Sotocats_FB]

Congratulations to Coach Sanchez @CoachSanchezSHS promoted to Defensive Coordinator! 🐾

We are excited to see what the 2026-2027 Season brings.

#CATS #WinTheHunt

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Congratulations Coach!

[Joshua Campbell @jacampbe47]

Thank you Wildcat Nation!
Now, it’s back to my roots!
@JayMustangFB @NISDJay @NISD_Athletics @Sotocats_FB @NISDSotomayor #BeElite

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

So proud of you, Coach! My Alma Mater is getting the best!

[Felicia Spivey @livelolluv4ever]

After 25 years in education, I am officially stepping into a new role as Assistant Principal at Katy Taylor High School. The truth is, I never needed a title to do what I love, supporting students, building relationships, and helping people grow. But I have to admit, Assistant Principal Spivey doesn't sound too bad. 🙌🏽 Your girl is trading in the gradebook for a walkie-talkie and moving from the register to the fries! 🤣🤣 Katy Taylor you just hired a whole vibe😎!

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Congratulations Haewood!

[Haewood Anderson @Haewood21]

After a great camp and conversation with Coach Gus I am blessed to receive my first offer from @txlutheran‼️@CoachAMarmolejo @_RL_Martin @CoachSanchezSHS @jamccall14 @Sotocats_FB @BDammone @iam_alinedouard @jacampbe47 @Coach_MOrales @CoachXY88

[✭Five Tool Texas✭ @FiveToolTexas]

.@TxAngelsBB 2028 Lesley's Boston Cantu drops one down the right field line for an RBI double.

Sotomayor (TX) 2028 #uncommitted

Profile: https://t.co/IZ7wrgJmO3

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Let's goooo, X! Get after it!

[Xavier Victor @X_2Shifty]

Had a good time competing today at @LamarFootball camp. Thank you @_CoachDiaz @coachmac_22 for the invite and your time.

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Welcome to Soto, @CoachCamo3!

[Sotomayor Wildcat Football @Sotocats_FB]

🏅📣 Welcome, Christopher Camarillo! We're thrilled to have you as part of the Sotomayor Football and Track coaching staffs. @CoachCamo3 brings over 20 years of experience coaching QBs!#CATS

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Way to go, Chance!

[chance collier @chance_collier5]

College coaches don't just watch the start of the play. They watch how it ends.🏈🎥

Every good or bad rep always finish the play.

Perfect technique can be coached. Effort can’t. My film shows the hustle on every snap. 👇🏽 @CoachTSpragg, @DWalls2ND, & @Coach_Meyer27 Thank you for a great camp and the feedback. Locked 🔒 down INT #5 across 4 different camps.

#RecruitSoto #TurnoverKING
@CoachBanda_SHS @SHS_CoachRod @jacampbe47 @jamccall14 @Coach_MOrales @CoachAMarmolejo @CoachSanchezSHS @iam_alinedouard @BDammone @PRYDE_210 @PrepRedzoneTX @210Preps @Sotocats_FB @WildcatsDen_SA

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Let's go! What a dream 🥰🤩

[Sotomayor Wildcat Softball @SotocatSoftball]

Take us back to camp! The future is bright for Soto Softball 🤩🥎

#FSU #Sotocats

[visios. 𓍝 @lifeisjustvices]

Wemby to Carter Bryant: “I’m proud of you” 🥹

[LSU Tigers @LSUsports]

COUNT ‘EM 💯

[Shawn Siemers @Siemers_XC_TF]

We finished second.

I remember taking the trophy from the meet director and waiting to feel excited.

I didn't...

The year before, we'd finished next to last in our district. One kid under 17:00. At our first 5k, Seven Lakes, we were 214 points behind first place.

That February, I'd had enough.

I tore up every workout I'd borrowed from coaches I respected and built something from scratch. My beliefs about how distance runners actually develop.

It wasn't polished. But for the first time, I understood every part of it and why it was there.

Want to know the first sign something had changed?

We beat two programs in an August tri-meet that had easily handled us the previous season.

I didn't say anything to the team...

But driving home I kept thinking: "Hmmmm...this might actually be working."

Then came Seven Lakes again.

We came in with a plan. Everything felt different.

It was different.

We finished second. Twenty-three points out of first.

Standing there holding that trophy, I wasn't thinking about the result.

I was thinking: "I CAN do this. I know what I'm doing."

Not we won. Not they'll respect us now.

Just that.

Here's why that moment mattered more than the trophy.

I'd left a twelve-year career in software to coach high school kids in XC and Track. A lot of people thought that was strange. And part of me had never stopped wondering if they were right.

The results didn't answer that question.

Results can come from luck, from talent you inherited, from borrowed training that happened to fit.

What answered it was understanding...

Knowing WHAT I was building, WHY I was building it, and what each piece was supposed to PRODUCE.

That's the thing nobody told me when I started coaching.

You can survive not knowing what you're doing. You keep the calendar full and the season pointed somewhere. You borrow something that worked elsewhere and hope it translates.

But you never quite feel in command.

There's always that quiet question underneath: Is this actually building what I think it's building?

The day you can answer that honestly is the day everything changes.

Not because you suddenly have better workouts.

Because you finally know what the workouts are for.

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

Welcome, Coach!!

[SOTOCATSGirlsHoops @SotocatsGBBall]

Please help us welcome Sophia Haberer as the newest Assistant Coach for Girls Basketball! 🏀

A Northside grad and accomplished high school & collegiate athlete, Sophia brings tremendous work ethic and energy to our program. We’re excited to have her join our staff! 💙 #GoNISD

[Sotomayor Wildcat Softball @SotocatSoftball]

What an amazing night celebrating our Varsity Softball team along with their families.
This year’s team was incredible and set the standard for our years to come!

🤍🩶🖤🥎
#Sotocats #FSU

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

My dude was born to untie shoes and disagree.

[Coach Aislinn Garza @CoachAGarza]

But coach. They make sure they always hit arms, legs, and and every session 🙄

[Peter Noonan @CoachNoon45]

Just because you like to workout or you used to do X,Y,Z or you “train” so and so doesn’t mean you’re actually qualified to run the weight room and field work for athletic programs. There’s an art and science to it that takes practice, education & failure to be an S&C coach

[Joe Aratari @JoeAratari]

HS sports:

Lifting with your team 2x/wk in the off-season doesn’t always guarantee you will win a title. It just increases your likelihood of success.

But not training with your team 2x/wk in the off-season almost always guarantee that you will not win a title. It wildly decreases your chances of success.

[Joe Aratari @JoeAratari]

My take when it comes to JV athletes training in season is that we do not put them on an in season program.

IYKYK.

[Sotomayor Wildcat Softball @SotocatSoftball]

Your varsity Sotocats face off against Marshall tonight 🥎

⏰: 7:00 pm
📍: NS1

SEE YOU THERE 💥