BEST SCHOOL COACH: Casey Schubert, Burnet High School

BURNET — When Casey Schubert was told she was voted the Burnet area’s Best School Coach in The Picayune’s Locals Love Us contest, she wanted to make sure it was the right Schubert.
“Are you sure it’s not David?” she asked.
David Schubert is the Burnet High School girls athletics coordinator and head basketball coach, who is known for taking the long route to the restaurant table or bleacher seat or just about any public gathering so he can talk to as many people as possible. Wife Casey considers herself the quieter, more reserved one of the two.
That’s why she was surprised she was chosen and not her husband.
“He’s definitely more vocal, more high-energy,” she said. “He talks to everybody, and I’m behind the scenes, doing my own thing. You know he’s the outgoing one. I’m going to come in and do my job and do the best job I can all the time.”
Still, Casey Schubert’s presence can be felt, too. She has been a head volleyball coach, a collegiate basketball player, and is currently the Burnet High School head cross-country coach and assistant track coach. She is involved in many aspects of student life besides being a teacher.
Many would say she is a great teacher of the sports she coaches, emphasizing fundamentals and techniques with a tremendous ability to connect to her players and students.  
But to Schubert, she is simply doing what she’s always done, which typically doesn’t come with an award.
“I don’t really see I’ve done anything any differently,” she said. “I’m very focused on trying to give the kids what they deserve. We have a good coaching staff; they all work incredibly hard for those kids.”
She noted that some of her students need to be encouraged, while others simply require a stern talk for motivation.
In her classroom hangs a question about being satisfied with being good enough. She often asks her students about it, noting it refers to simply doing just enough to get the job done.
Schubert said she talked to one of her runners who was very happy with the results of the 2015 season, noting the team finished near the top of the district race.
The coach’s response? That was last year. We have stuff to do this year. What can you do better? We have to go out and compete.
She applies that philosophy to every phase of her life, she said, including excelling as a teacher, a wife, a mother, and all the other roles she has.
“If you settle, you’re cheating yourself,” she said. “You can’t ever be comfortable, don’t ever be satisfied.”
jfierro@thepicayune.com