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Hendrickson Head Football Coach Adam Naron - Photo by Merle Bertrand
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Hendrickson head coach Adam Naron majored in architecture in college, a background that puts a whole new spin on the phrase βdesigning a team in his own image.β Heβll have the chance to do just that as he tries to renovate the Hendrickson Hawks and get them back in the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
Following a standout career at Plainview High School, the 43-year-old San Antonio nativeβs path led quickly, if indirectly, to coaching.
βI was in college and I was an architecture major and I was playing football. I was a football practicer, not so much a football player,β Naron elaborated on his collegiate βcareerβ at Texas Tech with a chuckle. βI got halfway through that freshman year, and I decided that I wanted to be around sports and I wanted to work with kids and with people. I thought architecture was pretty cool, but I thought coaching would be a lot more fun.
βAnd so, my competitive juices and my experience playing sports throughout high school and as a child led me into coaching and I think itβs been a really rewarding career. Getting to work with people and at the same time being able to do something thatβs exciting and competitive.β
Naron began his coaching career at the junior high level in Frisco. He then spent several more years coaching at various high schools in the Metroplex, including JJ Pierce, Prosper and Frisco Reedy where he was the offensive coordinator. He spent the last five seasons as the head coach and athletic coordinator at Hereford High School in West Texas. It was there that his architectural background found a surprising outlet.
βMy last job as an athletic director, I was able to do a lot of field design, and then we built a new fieldhouse, upgrades to the stadiums and the facilities,β Naron recalled. βSo, I do think as a coach, itβs not just Xβs and Oβs. You gotta look at those things like layouts of the fields and the locker rooms and press boxes and the logistics of those things. So, I can see the relationship between coaching and having to have that eye for that organization like an architect might have also.β
After 15 seasons in the Metroplex and five seasons in West Texas, Naron saw in Hendrickson a chance to move closer to family.
β(Coaching in West Texas) was a very neat experience but we wanted to get back closer to the Austin area,β Naron explained. βMy family, my parents, Iβve got a couple of sisters that live here, my brother who lives in Boerne, my wife has family in the area, so just kind of getting to this area was important.β
Hendrickson also seemed like a good fit to his wife, Torrie, whoβs also an educator, 8th grade daughter Kennedy and son Davis, a 4th-grader.
βI wanted to be at a school that was high academic, that my kids could go to and theyβd learn and be successful as well as being at a school that I thought could be competitive and successful in athletics. So, it had to be both. It had to be academic and had to be highly athletic. Hendrickson checked a lot of those boxes,β Naron stated.
βOddly enough, my dad started working at Hendrickson last year. Heβs a teacher; heβs been at a couple of other Austin area schools, but he just started working at Hendrickson, so I had little bit of familiarity with Hendrickson. Coach (Jonathan) Lamb, the athletic director, we had some connections to each other from some of the coaches Iβve worked with in the past. He also spent some time coaching in West Texas in Plainview, my hometown where I grew up, so he had a few connections and some people we knew and so it just kind of made sense as an opportunity to pursue.β
Naron takes over a Hawks team thatβs finished back-to-back .500 seasons and hasnβt reached the postseason in six years. Heβs aware that ending that streak in a loaded District 12-5A-1 that includes the likes of Georgetown, Weiss, College Station, A&M Consolidated and others will be an uphill battle. But heβs up for the challenge.
βThe thing Iβve heard since Day 1 is how tough this district is and Iβm familiar with several of the coaches in the district. Iβve worked for Brandon Schmidt (A&M Consolidated) at Prosper; Malcolm Hill at Weiss was my receivers coach when I was offensive coordinator at Reedy, so Iβve got some familiarity with those guys.
βBut lots of strong programs in this district and I think youβll see improvement in the teams that were weaker last year and then the top bunch is going to get even tougher. So, as hard as it is, our goal is still to win. Right now, everybodyβs saying, βWell, this is the team to beat,β or βthis is the team to beat.β Hopefully, we can steal some from those guys and we can come out and surprise a few people as well.β
Architects start any design with a blank sheet of paper or a cursor blinking on an empty computer screen. Naron knows the same principle applies as he looks to rebuild the Hendrickson Hawks into a contender.
Weβre looking forward to this season,β he declared. βThereβs a lot of change and some uncertainty and things like that which go along with a coaching change, but the kids have responded really well. I think theyβre fired up and theyβre excited to play.
βAgain, itβs a tough district and they know that and I think theyβre excited to put themselves to the test and try to prove themselves against everybody else.β
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