One of Jena High School’s most celebrated coaches, Carrice Russell Baker, was named to a list of the top 25 most influential women in Louisiana sports history by The Advocate of Baton Rouge. Baker was a girls’ basketball coach at Jena High from 1972 to 1985 and remains the state’s winningest high school coach of nearly 1,000 victories along with four state championships at Jena in a five-player format and four state championships at Winnsboro in a six-player format.