{"id":10016,"date":"2021-11-02T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chalkboardchampions.org\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:24:31","slug":"joey-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chalkboardchampions.org\/joey-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas PE teacher and coach Joey Rodriguez succumbs to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10017\" style=\"width: 694px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10017\" data-attachment-id=\"10017\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chalkboardchampions.org\/joey-rodriguez\/fb8csbdwuaayi7p\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?fit=684%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"684,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Joey Rodriguez&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?fit=584%2C820&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10017\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?resize=584%2C820&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?w=684&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chalkboardchampions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FB8cSbDWUAAYI7P.jpeg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadly, beloved Texas PE teacher and soccer coach Joey Rodriguez succumbed to Covid-19 on Oct. 17, 2021. He was only 43 years old. Photo credit: The Dallas Morning News.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are sad to report that Covid-19 has claimed the life of yet another beloved educator. Joey Rodriguez, and teacher and coach from Arlington, Texas, succumbed to the disease on Sunday, Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his passing, Joey was a Physical Education teacher and soccer coach at Sam Houston High School in the Arlington Independent School District.\u00a0Joey Rodriguez devoted 12 years of his professional life to the school.<\/p>\n<p>Former student Selena Saldana, class of 2013, says she will greatly miss her former teacher. &#8220;He was my high school PE teacher, and he was always pushing me to do much more,&#8221; she remembered. &#8220;Every time we had to run on the track and I would stop to take a break, he would yell, &#8216;Come on, Selena. You can do it. Don&#8217;t stop now.&#8217; He was really supportive,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to teaching physical education, Joey worked as the school&#8217;s soccer coach since 2009. &#8220;Twice, he led his soccer teams to the state championship,&#8221; recalled \u00a0Marcelo Cavazos, Superintendent of Arlington Schools. &#8220;He grew the program so rapidly that the district had to hire more coaches so that all of the kids who wanted to learn from Coach Rodriguez could have the opportunity,&#8221; Cavazos noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Coach Rodriguez&#8217;s Sam Houston team made their first state tournament appearance in school history in 2015.That year, the student athletes reached the Class 6A semifinals and finished 23-3-2. In 2017, the Sam Houston team was the state runner-up, losing to Jesuit in overtime in the title game to finish 22-3-2.\u00a0Sam Houston High School is one of only three schools in the Arlington District to qualify for the state tournament in boys soccer. In addition to coaching, Joey served as the President of the Texas Association of Soccer Coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Joey graduated from Abilene High School in 1995 where he participated in soccer, football, and marching band. After his high school graduation, Joey enrolled at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he studied and played soccer for two years before transferring to Hardin Simmons University in Abilene. He graduated from Hardin Simmons with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Physical Education in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, beloved Texas PE teacher and soccer coach Joey Rodriguez succumbed to Covid-19 on Oct. 17, 2021. 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