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Westlake Girls Basketball
HEAD COACH
Vickie
Benson
Vickie Benson is currently the Head Girls Basketball
coach at Westlake High School in Austin, Tx. Vickie
served at the helm of the Bowie High School girls
basketball program in Austin ISD where she spent 12
years as head basketball coach and classroom teacher.
She led the Bulldogs to five consecutive basketball
district championships and advanced to the 6A state
playoffs 10 consecutive years. She marks 500 ca-
reer victories and earned Coach of the Year honors
from the Austin American-Statesman in 2014. Vickie
launched the BeYOUtiful Classic in 2013 as an
opportunity to offer more at a tournament than just
basketball games. There is a mental health component
and opening ceremony that is second to none. It has
grown to 32 teams and is noted as “the kickoff” to
girls’ basketball in Texas.
Prior to Bowie, Benson coached basketball, track and
volleyball at Hyde Park Baptist Schools in Austin,
where she also served as the girls’ athletic director. She
began her coaching and teaching career at McNeil
High School in Round Rock ISD in 1999.
Vickie has served on the TABC board of directors for
3 years and has been a District Rep, Regional Coordi-
nator and Assistant Regional Coordinator for TABC.
Vickie also piloted a program for TABC to offer pro-
fessional development for member coaches through
Virtual Mini Clinics (VMC’s)
Vickie is married to Kacy Benson, the campus pastor
at Bannockburn South in Austin. They havetwo sons,
Coleton, who plays basketball at Army West Point and
Tyton, a Senior at Austin Bowie.