BY DENNIS SILVA II | densilva2@gmail.com

Mike Rabe was formally introduced as the Jordan High head football coach and athletic coordinator in late January. Since then, Rabe has been hard at work putting together the athletic department staff for Katy ISD’s ninth high school.

The school is almost ready for occupancy and for faculty to move into, but Rabe has already put together the Warriors’ athletics staff in a little less than three months. Jordan is scheduled to be ready to open by the start of the 2020-2021 school year.

“This is an opportunity to not have to do anything over. You get to go in and do everything from day one. It’s real exciting,” Rabe said after he was hired. “It’s a special opportunity to be able to open up a high school. You look across the state and there’s not many of those that happen. You see several each year, but it’s a small opportunity to be able to jump in and do that.”

Jordan High submitted an initial enrollment number of 1,586.69 in late October.

Because Jordan is opening on an even year (2020) and beginning with ninth and 10th grades, Jordan’s individual sports will go varsity right away but team sports will wait until the fall of 2021, when the school has ninth, 10th and 11th graders. The only sport that is not able to be placed in realignment on the “middle” year, or halfway between the two-year realignment, is football.

Football for Jordan High won’t be realigned by the UIL until 2022, which will be Jordan’s first varsity football season. Until then, the district will try to mix and match schedules for Jordan to play football, just not under the UIL umbrella.

Here is a list of the head coach for each respective sport at the school, with the coach’s former school/job in parentheses:

Baseball: Zach Maddox (Tompkins High baseball assistant coach)

Boys Basketball: Charlie Jones (George Ranch boys basketball head coach)

Girls Basketball: Andy Rice (Taylor High girls basketball assistant coach)

Boys Cross Country: Mabry Allen (Mayde Creek football assistant coach)

Girls Cross Country: Kymberlee Trnka (Mayde Creek cross country head coach/assistant track coach)

Football: Mike Rabe (Mayde Creek football head coach)

Golf: Ken Rose (Arlington Martin golf head coach)

Boys Soccer: Jason Meekins (Ridge Point boys soccer head coach)

Girls Soccer: Rennie Rebe (Pflugerville Hendrickson girls soccer head coach)

Softball: Jennifer Hooker (Taylor softball assistant coach)

Swimming: Scott Slay (Richmond Foster swimming head coach)

Tennis: Paul Wallace (Morton Ranch tennis head coach)

Boys Track: Ryan Henry (Mayde Creek boys track head coach/assistant football coach)

Girls Track: Kymberlee Trnka (Mayde Creek cross country head coach/assistant track coach)

Athletic Trainer: Shelle Brown

Volleyball: Jen Vaden (Mayde Creek volleyball head coach)

Wrestling: Mike White (Cypress Woods wrestling head coach)