After Seven Seasons, Coltrain Leaving LHS

La Grange head volleyball and girls track coach and Assistant Athletic Director Leslie Coltrain is leaving LGISD after seven seasons with the Lady Leps.

She is heading to 4AChina Spring, near Waco, where she will be the head volleyball and assistant track coach.

Coltrain informed her Lady Lep athletes of the news last week as they returned from Christmas Break. She will still be working at LGISD for the next few weeks, but will be starting at China Spring maybe as early as late February.

“You start thinking about all the kids you coached over seven years ... from camps on up through seniors in high school. It’s been great,” Coltrain said. “Kids bought in when I first got here. We had some success but also did not do as well as we wanted to. It’s the nature of the game, but I’ve got some great, great memories.”

Coltrain said the job offer and her decision all happened in the last few weeks.

“I hadn’t really thought about looking, but I got a phone call and they asked have you thought about this (job opening),” Coltrain said. “I said ‘No,’and they said well you need to.”

Coltrain will take over a China Spring volleyball team that went 30-12 and 10-0 in district last season and went to the second round of the playoffs. Two years ago they went to the fourth round.

“It’s a great athletic staff, really supportive administration, honestly a lot like La Grange in a lot of ways – great community support,” Coltrain said.

With one of her youngest teams ever, the Lady Leps went just 12-28 in volleyball last season but did go 5-5 in district to make the playoffs with just one senior on the team.

From 2020-2022 the Lady Leps won three consecutive co-district titles under Coltrain. She led the Lady Leps to the playoffs all seven years as head coach and advanced to the second round four times.

Coltrain and her husband Khalil have a son Camden, who is a senior on the Leps basketball team and a daughter Emma, who graduated from LHS and is now a junior at Baylor.

La Grange athletic director Kyle Cooper praised Coltrain as a coach and as an assistant athletic director.

“She poured herself into the program,” Cooper said. “She did a ton in the communication and social media world for us.

“It’s going to be tough to fill those roles, but we’re excited for her and the opportunity. We’ll give it a little bit of time and let some things sink in and go out and find the best replacement we can.”