Former Santa Rita High softball standout Jane Teixeira, who later played for the Texas Longhorns, has been hired as senior associate commissioner of the PacWest Conference. That league — which includes schools such as Fresno-Pacific, BYU-Hawaii, Cal Baptist and Dixie State — hired Teixeira away from Conference USA where she was director of NCAA compliance, among other things.
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