Veteran coach fills Mosca’s position at Jefferson

Posted Sep 2, 2010 by Katherine Smith

Updated Sep 2, 2010 at 03:15 PM

A former college basketball coach is replacing Tom Mosca at Jefferson.

Jim Baxter, who has coaching stints at Bethune-Cookman, Monmouth, FAMU and Tallahassee Comunity College on his resume, will take over the girls basketball position that became available when Mosca took an assistant coaching job at the Air Force Academy.

“He’s got an extensive coaching resume,” Jefferson athletic director Bob Morgan said. “He’s like Tom Mosca, he’s got a lot of years in basketball.”

Baxter inherits a team that advanced to the state Final Four last season and loses just one starter, Jade Givens.

“He went to a few of our games last year,” Morgan said of Baxter, whose wife Michelle Woods-Baxter is an assitant coach at USF. “He’s familiar with our players.”