Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a daily series of stories highlighting the new members of the Brownwood coaching staff for the 2020-21 school year.

After spending five years coaching high school student-athletes, Kelby Doughty is returning to her junior high roots as she joins the staff at Brownwood Middle School.

A native of Pampa, Doughty began her coaching career at the junior high level in Dumas, then returned to her alma mater where she coached high school sports for five years.

“I’m getting back to the young ones and I’m really excited,” Doughty said. “At the junior high, I feel like it’s a lot more of the fundamentals and getting them to love the sport. High school is more about competition and winning become your big concern. I’m ready to get back to the younger ones and teach them to not only compete but to love the sport.”

Doughty is following in the footsteps of her father in her chosen career path.

“My dad is a coach and when I got into college I said I was never going to coach and teach,” Doughty said. “But somehow I wound up in education classes and physical education and coaching classes and all that, so I feel like it really was my calling, I was just trying to push it away.”

After graduating from Pampa, Doughty went on to play two years of softball for Howard College and later graduated from Midwestern State University.

Regarding the appeal of the Brownwood job, Doughty said, “I have been up in the Texas panhandle the last five years coaching and teaching and I was ready for a little bit of a weather change, some warmer weather.”

Doughty, who will coach all sports at Brownwood Middle School, said of the goals for her student-athletes, “I really hope we can teach them to love to win and hate to lose.”