Jessica Merchant takes assistant coaching post at Stanford

Jessica Merchant, perhaps Wayland High School’s most famous female athletic alum, has decided to join the coaching staff as an assistant at Stanford University. Merchant, an all-state and Miss Softball selection while a Wildcat in 2001, had been an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota for the past several years. She also was an All-American for the University of Michigan NCAA championship softball team in 2005.