Alamo City Battle Announces Stephanie Takas-Mercer as Head Coach

Published on April 26, 2002 under Women's Professional Football League (WPFL)
Alamo City Battle News Release


The Alamo City Battle (San Antonio's Women's Professional Football League team) announces Stephanie Takas-Mercer as their head coach.

Coach Mercer loves football and women's sports and comes to the Alamo City Battle with a good size resume of coaching both women's and men's 5A sports here in Texas as well as playing football in flag football leagues.

A native of San Antonio, coach Stephanie Takas-Mercer attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. After Roosevelt she went to play college basketball at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. While at Southwestern, she played on many intramural flag football teams.

Upon graduating from Southwestern in 1994, Stephanie began her coaching career at Eisenhower Middle School. Soon after coaching at the junior high, Coach Mercer moved to Lubbock where she coached volleyball, boy's basketball and track at Lubbock High. Also in Lubbock she actively participated in flag football at Texas Tech.

After returning to San Antonio, Coach Mercer coached basketball and softball at Tom C. Clark High School.

Currently Coach Mercer is the Head Women's Basketball coach at Providence High School where she has led the team in back to back state tournament appearances in the two years she has been there.

Coach Stephanie Takas-Mercer joins the Alamo City Battle as head coach with the unanimous approval of all the principals involved in bringing the WPFL into the San Antonio area with the Alamo City Battle team. Stephanie came highly rated by other coaches in and around the San Antonio area. Her coaching skills and abilities are very impressive. Her knowledge of football is quite extensive as is her desire to coach football. We are very delighted to have Stephanie Takas-Mercer guiding the Alamo City Battle into its first season.

Come by and meet coach Stephanie Takas-Mercer at the Alamo City Battle's first Open Tryout April 21 on the football field of Our Lady of the Lake University. Registration for Open Tryouts begins at 2:00 P.M.

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