By ERIC VICCARO
sports@bowienewsonline.com

Casey Jones will be experiencing several firsts in the coming months.
First, Jones and his wife, Katie, are awaiting the birth of their first child – with a due date of Aug. 14.
And taking over the reins of the Nocona High School baseball team will mark Casey’s first head coaching job.
“Casey grew up around the game of baseball,” said Frisco Independence head baseball coach Stacy Largent. “His dad (Chris) was a head baseball coach, and he comes from a good lineage. I think he’s good at developing players and he’s great with kids.”
Jones was an assistant coach under Largent for the past three seasons. The Knights finished the 2016 season with a 6-9 record in District 5A-13, losing a play-in game versus Frisco Reedy for fourth place and a playoff spot.
“I like the type of community Nocona is,” Jones said. “Frisco is so big. So, I like the smallness of it. I think it’s an attractive place to raise a family.”
Jones also will mentor wide receivers and cornerbacks for Nocona football, and he’ll be a middle school basketball coach. In the classroom, Casey will serve as a high school history teacher.
Before his time at Frisco Independence, Jones spent six years as an assistant coach at Decatur – which is Casey’s alma mater. Read more in the June 24 Bowie News.

Casey Jones was most recently a teacher and assistant baseball coach at Conference 5A Frisco Independence. (Courtesy photo by Frisco ISD)