Video: UTEP soccer coach Kathryn Balogun Bret Bloomquist, Wochit
Six years before she joined UTEP, Kathryn Balogun knew when she applied to be the soccer coach at Texas Southern she would be stepping into a long-odds situation.
Texas Southern faces challenges with resources and the soccer program was perennially at the bottom of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
What she may or may not have known in 2013 is those long odds began before she walked through the interview door with an assistant coaching position at Alabama State as the top line on her resume.
"Initially she was not our first choice," said Dr.