As an amateur Longhorn sports historian, telling Coach Weis’s stories on the Texas Legacy Sports Network website has been one of my most enjoyable experiences.
Coach Weis is to Longhorn golf what Royal is to Longhorn football. Billy Graham had Coach Weis in mind when he said, “a coach will influence more people in one year than an average person will do in a lifetime.”
If you would like to know more about Coach Weis’s life journey, please click on one or both of the following links. These two links are now permanently added to the history of Longhorn sports.
TLSN is building bridges to the past to remind all Longhorns that Coach Weis life work has shaped the present and inspired the future for the Longhorn Nation. HORNS UP!
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/history-5
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/lost-in-2020
OBITUARY
Patricia A Weis
May 16, 1930 – February 9, 2020
Patricia A. “Pat” Weis, age 89, of Austin, died February 9, 2020, at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center.
Pat grew up in Brinkley, Arkansas where she graduated from high school in 1948. She graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1952 with a BS degree in Education. She taught health and physical education in Houston at Reagan High School (1952-1954) and Houston Lamar High School (1954-1955). She attended the University of Colorado with a teaching fellowship (1955-1957) where she received a Master’s Degree in Biological Science.
In 1957 she came to the University of Texas at Austin as an instructor in the department of Health and Physical Education, until 1973 when she became the first women’s intercollegiate athletic golf coach until she retired in 1993.
Visitation will be held from 3:00-5:00pm on Sunday, February 16, 2020, followed by a rosary service at 5:00pm in the Colonial Chapel of Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10:00am on Monday, February 17, 2020 at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, 4311 Small Dr, Austin, 78731.
