Pioneer field hockey coach Jane Nixon, Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz in hospital after scooter accident

Jane Nixon, a special education teacher and field hockey coach at Pioneer High School, is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at the University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center after suffering injuries Wednesday in a scooter accident in Ann Arbor.

Pioneer High School field hockey coach and teacher Jane Nixon. (Photo: File photo)

Nixon was riding on a scooter driven by Michigan field hockey coach Marcia Pankratz about 8 p.m. Wednesday when they collided with a Dodge Intrepid at the intersection of Packard Street and East University, according to Ann Arbor police. Both Nixon and Pankratz were wearing helmets. Police said the accident remains under investigation.

Pankratz also was admitted to UM Hospital.

A page for Nixon on the Michigan Health System CarePages has a note from John and Joan Nixon and includes, “The family appreciates your support and prayers and asks that you please give them their privacy. Please no visitors at this time.”

Nixon has coached at Pioneer for the past 12 seasons, and the Pioneers defeated Huron for a state championship on Oct. 31Â - the programs 21st overall and fifth straight. Nixon played college field hockey at Michigan, earning second team All-Big Ten honors in 1986.

Pankratz is credited with turning Michigan field hockey into one of the elite programs in the country.

She returned to lead the team in January after a hiatus from coaching. She was previously the head coach of the Wolverines from 1996 to 2004, winning a 2001 NCAA title - the first by a women’s team in the history of Michigan athletics.

Before coaching at Michigan, Pankratz played for the U.S. National team at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. She spent nine years with U.S. Field Hockey team (1985-90, 1994-96), playing in 110 international matches.