WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Central Texas high school softball coach who played softball at the University of Texas said she couldn’t be prouder to be a player alum after UT won their first World Series title in program history.
Raygan Feight Barron, 36, of Bosqueville, was a second baseman for UT from 2008 to 2011 and says playing a role in building the program to a national powerhouse makes her extremely proud.
“I’m a super proud alumni, super proud of our horns, super proud of the way that they fought,” Barron said.
Barron played softball for Bosqueville from 2003 to 2007.
She was the shortstop for the state championship team and hit the grand slam to help Bosqueville claim victory over Shiner her senior year.
Barron hit the grand slam in the bottom of the 6th inning when the score was 1-0.
Barron then played one year at MCC before transferring to UT where she was part of a team that won a Big 12 Conference Championship in 2010.
They also made it to the Super Regionals where the Horns were beat by Alabama.
Last year, Barron fulfilled a lifelong dream of watching the Longhorns play in person in the College World Series Championship Series.
While the team fell to the University of Oklahoma with Barron and her family, including her kids Briggs and Brookie, in the stands, she said she was still thankful for the opportunity.
“I’m so thankful that I get to experience it with Briggs and Brookie,” she told KWTX in 2024. “Growing up as a player watching these girls play and then getting to play college ball at the University of Texas and now getting to be here and watch Texas play, it’s been something that only players like me and girls like Brookie can dream of coming to watch.”
This year, Barron made the trip back to Oklahoma City where the College World Series coincided with a softball tournament in which her daughter was playing.
They watched the Horns face off against Oklahoma on May 31st and win.
For the championship series between the Longhorns and Texas Tech, Barron was back in Central Texas where she watched the series with her family on television.
The final game she viewed from a restaurant in China Spring.
“The entire series we were on the edge of our seats. Every game was such a fun thing to do, such a fun thing to experience,” Barron said. “It was something that it doesn’t matter what age you were, you were watching. You were into it. You were yelling at the tv. "
Barron said she couldn’t be prouder of the fight she saw in the Longhorns all season long.
“I want to say how proud I am of our Horns and how proud I am that they brought home the national championship,” she said. “The first ever for Longhorn softball and that’s a huge feat and that’s something that we dream about and something we all want to experience, and we went on that experience with those ladies these last couple of weeks.”
Barron returned to coach at Bosqueville High School this year where she just finished her first season as head coach.
Her team went undefeated and won the district championship.
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