Hitting: Black and White - Teresa Lentz

Teresa Flores Lentz

Teresa Flores Lentz has been head softball coach at Calallen High School in Corpus Christi for the past nine years. Since that time her teams have compiled a 195-95 won-loss record, made two state finalist appearances, won two regional titles, two district championships and advanced to the playoffs five years.  

 Coach Lentz is a graduate of Texas Woman’s University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with a minor Adaptive Physical Education. At TWU she was named Lone Star Conference South Division - Player of the Year and named to the DII All-America team at shortstop in 2004. She set several records that still stand at TWU where she also served as a student assistant. She was inducted into the TWU Athletics Hall or Fame in 2013.   

 She also was an assistant coach at Rockport-Fulton High School in 2005 -2006. After that, she was a volunteer assistant coach at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio in spring of 2007.  

 Coach Lentz also earned a master’s degree in Special Education from the University of Texas where she was a graduate assistant with the Lady Longhorns softball team in 2007 - 2008.  

 She then served as assistant coach at Texas A&M- Corpus Christi from 2008 - 2011. Where she aided the Islanders on to winning the Southland Conference Championship in 2011.  

 Her softball career included playing for some of the top softball teams in the nation, including the Schutt Hurricanes in 2003, the California Sunbirds of the National Professional Fastpitch League in 2005, and Storm USA in 2007. During this time, she also played in the prestigious Canada Cup. As a college student, she was on a touring team that played throughout Europe in the summer of 2002.  

She played her high school softball at Corpus Christi Miller where earned All-District, All-South Texas and All-State honors as a shortstop. In 2016, she was inducted to the Buccaneers Athletics Hall Fame at Miller High school.