When Marion Reneau isn’t competing inside the UFC’s Octagon, she’s teaching. Reneau, a top 15 women’s bantamweight, is a physical education teacher at Farmersville High School in Farmersville, California. She has three classes: seniors, freshman girls, and a grade 10-12 weight training class.
It seems like it is an understatement to say that Reneau’s students find it cool that their teacher is a UFC fighter. That said, the 39-year-old’s students keep her other career relatively quiet, which is how she likes it.
“They don’t really discuss it,” Reneau told BloodyElbow.com’s The MMA Circus. “It’s kind of surreal to them, especially when they see me on TV or in a video game.