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Softball Coaches

Jesse Benavides

Assistant Football/Assistant Softball
jbenav@neisd.net

Coach Jesse Benavides joined Reagan in 2021 as both an Assistant Football and an Assistant Softball coach. He also teaches Algebra I.

Coach Benavides has been teaching and coaching since 2006, including at Brennan High School. He shares  that any and every year he gets to coach students is a highlight!

He is a graduate of Howard Payne University where he played Football for the Yellow Jackets. He is also a proud NEISD High School graduate from Robert E. Lee. While at Lee, he competed in Football, Basketball, and Track.

Coach Benavides is married to Meri and has two children. In his free time, he loves playing the drums and watching Bravo.

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Jesse Benavides

Assistant Football/Assistant Softball

Lana Bowers

Head Softball

Coach Lana Bowers, a native of Huffman, TX was a three-sport high school letter winner, earning All-State honors in softball and 1st team all-district honors in Volleyball, Basketball and Softball. She played travel ball with the nationally ranked program, TX Eclipse Gold. Bowers continued her academic and athletic pursuit at the University of Louisiana, as a Ragin’ Cajun Softball player. Bowers was a 3-time first team all-conference catcher, touting an impressive post season career of 3 Sunbelt Conference Championships, 4 NCAA Regional Appearances, 2 NCAA Super Regional Appearances, and a trip to the 2008 NCAA Women’s College World Series.

After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 2010, Bowers traveled to East Asia to play softball for the summer in 2010, 2011, and 2012. She began her coaching career in 2011 as an assistant coach at Teurlings Catholic High School in Lafayette, LA where they were State Runners-Up. She went on to coach at the University of Louisiana, making her second trip to Oklahoma City for the 2014 WCWS; Huffman-Hargrave where she won a Softball TX 4A State Championship; LSU Eunice winning a DII NJCAA National Championship; Baton Rouge Community College; Southeastern Louisiana University, and Denham Springs High School where the team broke the school record for most homeruns hit in a single season, under Bowers’ hitting instruction. Bowers spent one year at Mountain Valley Middle school coaching Volleyball, Basketball and Softball.

A few notable milestones for Bowers are earning her masters degree in teaching in 2017 and becoming a mom to two adopted sons in 2018… and becoming a Reagan Rattler in 2022.

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Lana Bowers

Head Softball

Larry Correa

Assistant Volleyball/Assistant Softball
lcorre@neisd.net

Larry Correa attended East Central High School, where he played football, basketball, and ran track. Coach Correa received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). While at UTSA, Coach Correa played on the men’s club volleyball team.

Coach Correa joined Reagan in 2004 and currently is Assistant Volleyball and Assistant Softball coach. In 2016, he was part of the coaching staff that took the team to the UIL State Volleyball Semi-finals. In addition to coaching, he also co-teaches Geometry.

He also has coaching experience in football, boys basketball and track. Prior to coming to Reagan, Coach Correa taught and coached at Jackson Middle School and Holy Spirit Middle School. In 2001, he led the Incarnate Word Shamrocks to a Volleyball State Championship. Coach Correa also coaches club volleyball.

Coach Correa and his wife, Yvonne, have two daughters, Laryssa and Madeline (“Maddie”), both Reagan graduates. He enjoys playing competitive volleyball and watching his daughters play volleyball and dance.

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Larry Correa

Assistant Volleyball/Assistant Softball