Three weeks into the season, Javelina Softball Coach Douglas Eastman has been replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Late Thursday, Javelina Athletics announced interim coach Orlando Salinas has taken over with little explanation as to why the abrupt change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eastman began his position at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in August 2022, and six months later is gone.\u00a0Assistant Coach Erika Bennett was also removed, according to athletic officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salinas has named his own assistant who is arriving Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salinas met with softball players Thursday afternoon to discuss overall goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked about the situation Executive Director of Athletics Steve Roach refused to comment but did tout Salinas\u2019s tie to TAMUK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think when you look at his resum\u00e9 and his family connection to A&M Kingsville, then his passion for the student athlete and his experience, it was an easy decision and he is just highly committed to the student-athlete experience and when I say that I mean not just winning and losing, but the true experience and making sure they develop as young women on and off the field,\u201d Roach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salinas is an alumnus of TAMUK as well as a former Javelina baseball player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salinas has been coaching in South Texas for more than 25 years. Recently, he was the assistant softball coach at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are off and running so <\/sup>the one thing that I am gonna bring is we are gonna have a lot of energy and passion and the sooner we can make this a family the sooner they can finish their unfinished business in winning a national championship,\u201d Interim Coach Salinas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, the Javelinas Softball team is 2-4, but Coach Salinas looks to restart things the proper way in his first game with the Javelinas softball team with a double header at Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio on Sunday, Feb. 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interim Coach Salinas named Three weeks into the season, Javelina Softball Coach Douglas Eastman has been replaced. Late Thursday, Javelina Athletics announced interim coach Orlando Salinas… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":8502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,5,125,3],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[218],"class_list":["post-8501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-campus","category-news-and-features","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":218,"user_id":73,"is_guest":0,"slug":"christopher-olivares","display_name":"Christopher Olivarez","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/b7f2abd534768f7b113ff462cfd8123c.jpg?ver=1778637593","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}