Pine Tree Football Coaching Staff 2019

Jody Berryhill – Athletic Director
Coach Berryhill is originally from Bradenton, FL.  He attended Southwest Baptist University and has a degree in Sports Management and Sports Medicine.  Coach Berryhill has 32 years experience in his field with 29 of those years here at Pine Tree.  He also spent 3 years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  Coach Berryhill and his wife Theresa of 35 years have 2 daughters who are both graduates of Pine Tree and 2 sons-in-law who wish they had attended Pine Tree.  Most importantly, he has the “World’s Best Grandchildren, Ella Kate, Olivia Ryan, and newest arrival, his first grandson Daxton Blaine!”
​Kerry Lane – Head Football / Asst Athletic Director
Coach Lane and his wife Jamie have two sons.  Trey (9) who attends Parkway Elementary and Tyler (5) who attends Pine Tree Primary.  Trey and Tyler love being at the fieldhouse with their big brothers.   They also love playing football, basketball, baseball, & golf.  The Lane Family attends Grace Creek Church.  Coach Lane is a graduate of Union Grove High School and Stephen F. Austin State University.  He is starting his 4th season as the Head Coach of the Pirates and is blessed to be part of the Pine Tree Community.
  
Jason Bachman
Coach Bachman is the football offensive coordinator, receivers coach, and he also coaches track.  Coach Bachman comes to Pine Tree from Calvary (2010-2016) and Evangel (2008-2009).  Coach Bachman played receiver in high school and won 3 state championships in 2001, 2002 and 2004.  As their receivers coach, he helped coach Evangel to state finalist in 2008 and to a state championship in 2009.  He also coached Calvary to back to back state champions in 2013 and 2014 as their offensive coordinator.
Alex Barron
Alex Barron is a 2006 New Diana Graduate.  From Longview, TX, he attended Pine Tree from pre-K to 11th grade.  While at New Diana, he was 1st Team All-State, All East Texas, and All-District Kicker in 2005.  He still holds the class 2A Texas State record for the longest field goal at 57 yards.  Coach Barron attended UT Arlington, majoring in Kinesiology.  He played 5 seasons of professional arena football for the Texas Rattlers, Mesquite Wranglers, and Texas Revolution.  This year he will be the football special teams coach, assistant Varsity & JV soccer coach, as well as the head goalie coach.
Patrick Cochran
Coach Cochran and his wife Kayla are the proud parents of their two sons Cooper (5) and Maverick (1). He is a graduate of Cedar Park High School and Alabama A&M University.  Coach Cochran is beginning his first year of coaching at Pine Tree and his 3rd year overall, with previous stops at Frankston and Center High School.
Wayne Daniels
Coach Daniels is a graduate of Kilgore High School and Texas Christian University.  He played football while at TCU and was a member of the 2011 Rose Bowl Championship team.  He is teaching 9th grade World Geography for Pine Tree, and he will coach football and basketball.  Coach Daniels and his wife Meghan have a one year old son named Titan.  He is thrilled to start his career as a Pirate.
​Larry Denkins – Head Athletic Trainer
Coach Denkins is from Longview, TX and is an alumnus of Pine Tree High School.  He attended East Texas Baptist University and received his B.S. in Athletic Training.  He has been an Athletic Trainer at Pine Tree since the Fall of 2008. Coach Denkins has two dogs, Leo (4 months) and Momo (7 years old). 
​Cody Ellis
Coach Ellis is our Strength & Conditioning Director and is in his 14th year coaching at the High School and Collegiate level.  He holds a Master of Education in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Tyler.  He is certified by the USAW as a Sports Performance Coach and the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a Performance Enhancing Specialist.  Coach Ellis is also Safe Sport Certified and has completed the USADA 2019 Coach’s Advantage Program.  This allows Coach Ellis to become 1 of 75 Strength Coaches in the State of Texas to be named in the directory for the United States of America Weightlifting. Coach Ellis is also a member of the National High School Strength Coaches Association.  He played baseball at Tyler Junior College and the University of Arkansas at Monticello.  He returned to coach at Tyler Junior College after graduation from UAM and won a National Championship in 2007 as an assistant coach.  Ellis has been a Strength & Conditioning Director at Henderson ISD, Brownsboro ISD, and also Frankston ISD.  Coach Ellis and his wife Allison have a 11 year old daughter named Cadence and a 2 year old son named Cannon.
Zachariary Griffin
Pronounced Zachariary (Zach-a-ri-yah), Coach Griffin is from Beaumont, Texas.  He is a graduate of East Texas Baptist University and will be teaching 7th grade math, while coaching football and track.
Alton Hawkins
Coach Hawkins is from Longview, TX.  He attended Henderson State University where he earned his B.S. in Business.  Coach Hawkins has been coaching for 26 years with 19 of those years at Pine Tree.  He has also coached at Mt. Pleasant HS.  Coach Hawkins has been married to his wife Deidre for 26 years, and their daughter Debra, and son Victor are both Pine Tree graduates.  He also has three grandchildren, Myrcall, Avery and Noah.  Coach Hawkins is also the proud pastor of Pleasant Hill-Leigh CME Church, in Karnack, Texas.  
Jacob Holder
Coach Holder is coaching our safeties and serving as our head track coach.  He is originally from Rowlett, TX.  After playing football at Ouachita Baptist University, Coach Holder began his teaching and coaching career at Rockwall High School in 2006.  He is joining Pine Tree this year after short stints at Mount Vernon as the defensive coordinator, Grapevine as a defensive backs coach, and North Forney as the defensive coordinator.  He and his wife, Megan, have two kids.  Hannah (7) is attending Birch Elementary and Jude (5) is attending the Primary campus.  The Holders are excited to be joining the Pine Tree Family!
Chase Jordan
Coach Jordan graduated from Hallsville High School. He then went on to play baseball at Navarro Junior College while being a part of the 2011 National Championship team.  After that, he went to Lamar College and graduated with a general studies degree. He and his wife Lindsay moved to Pine Tree this year along with their 2 year old daughter, Baylor. He will coach Football, Basketball, and Baseball this year while teaching in the Excel program.
Garrett Methvin – JH Boys’ Coordinator
Coach Methvin is a 2009 Spring Hill High School Graduate.  He played one year at the University of Arkansas as a pitcher on the baseball team before transferring to LeTourneau University in the fall of 2010.  He played the remainder of his career at LeTourneau as a Pitcher and First Baseman when LeTourneau won its first ever ASC Championship in 2014.  Garrett graduated from LeTourneau with a 3.9 GPA, majoring in Kinesiology, and currently working on his Masters in Education.  He coached Baseball the first two years of his career at Central Heights High School in Nacogdoches, Texas. This is his 4th year at Pine Tree where he is the new Boys Junior High Athletics Coordinator. He is also the Varsity Assistant Baseball Coach. He is married to Leighchele Methvin, his wife of 9 years and has 4 beautiful children. Elijah (Eli)-7, Lilly-6, and Adileigh (Adi)-4, and Asher-1.5. Garrett is excited for another great year at Pine Tree and an opportunity to build something special!
Hector Peralez
Coach Peralez is a graduate of Kilgore High School.  He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BSA in Chemistry.  He started at Pine Tree in 2018. He teaches chemistry, and he coaches football and soccer at the high school.
Rachael Phillips LAT, ATC – Assistant Athletic Trainer
Coach Phillips is from Port Aransas, TX and attended Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi where she received her Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training. This is her fifth year at Pine Tree as a proud Pine Tree Pirate! Her previous experience includes working with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s men’s basketball, men & women’s track and cross country, and various high school sports at Mary Carroll High School. She has two pups that she adores, Momo (7 years) and Leo (4 months).
Kip Picarella
Coach Picarella (aka. Coach P.) and his wife Alyssa have a son, Benjamin (<1yr). He attended East Texas Baptist University and received his B.S. in Athletic Training, as well as recently graduating with his Masters Degree from the University of Hawaii.  He has 7 years experience with sports teams ranging from Junior High to Professional athletes, most notably the United States soccer national teams. He and his family are excited to be a part of the Pine Tree family!
Rodrick Portley
Coach Portley is a graduate of Texas A&M – Commerce and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and Sports Studies.  He has two children, Dominique (23) who currently works as a Behavioral Therapist for Steps to Progress in Houston, and Adrian (22) who is a first year teacher in Sulphur Springs ISD.  He has coached previously at Overton HS and he is currently the Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting Association Region 3 Div. 1 director.  He will be coaching football and powerlifting and teaching in the Special Ed. Dept. for us at Pine Tree HS.
Angel Rocha
Coach Rocha is a graduate from Tatum High and received his college degree from the University of Texas at Tyler, majoring in English and Spanish.  Coach Rocha is our Head Boys Soccer Coach at Pine Tree as well as assists with the defensive line in football.  Coach Rocha has been coaching since 2008.  He spent four years at Grace Community as a Varsity Defensive Line coach and Assistant Varsity Boys soccer coach, before returning to coach at his alma mater to become the boys Head Soccer coach.  At Tatum, he helped build the program and lead it to its UIL berth as well as helping the program reach the playoffs every year.  
Steven Rockwell
Coach Rockwell is a 2007 graduate of Ore City HS.   He and his wife Kawaljulah have a two and a half old son named Elijah.  Coach Rockwell is entering his third year of coaching football, basketball, and track.  He will also be teaching Texas History at the JH.  He has previous coaching experience at Hawkins HS defensive coordinator in (2016-17) and Ore City (2015-16).  At Ore City HS, Coach Rockwell was all-district and all-east Texas RB/LB.  He graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in 2012 with a B.B.S. in Sports Fitness and Leisure Studies.  He was also a four-year starter on the football team and was selected all-conference and all-region RB. 
 
Wesley Schoon
Coach Schoon is a graduate of Harmony High School. He played football and baseball at East Texas Baptist University (2012-13) and is a graduate of Tarleton State University where he majored in Kinesiology Fitness Management.  Coach Schoon is going into his fourth year of teaching and coaching here at Pine Tree ISD.
​Brandon Shaver
Coach Shaver is the new Head Boys Basketball coach this year at Pine Tree. He grew up in Diana, TX where he was Valedictorian and 3 years all-state, but has spent the last 18 years in Louisiana. He met his wife Megan of 15 years at Northwestern State University while he was playing basketball there. They have three very active and amazing boys. Jaxon is 13 and goes to Pine Tree Junior High, Kade is 10 and goes to Pine Tree Middle School, and Bryce is 7 and goes to Pine Tree Parkway Elementary. Coach Shaver graduated from St. Leo University with a degree in Business, but never stopped being a student of the game. He started an organization called ArkLaTex Elite basketball in Shreveport, a training program that focused on developing young athletes with the core fundamentals of basketball. He’s coached at Loyola, Calvary, and Central School in Grand Cane. This year he will be working on implementing a boys developmental basketball league for Pine Tree and helping to coach the safeties and wide receivers on the Junior High football team.
Tyler Simmons
Coach Simmons is married to Paige Simmons and they have three children, Mack (7), Sarah (4) and Hallie (3).  He will be coaching football and track, and teaching Economics in his fourth year at Pine Tree.  Coach Simmons is a 2005 graduate of White Oak High School and has previously coached at Marshall, Quitman, Spring Hill, and Pittsburg.  He played football at Trinity Valley Community College and East Texas Baptist University, and graduated from ETBU in 2009. 
Keith Smith
Coach Smith is a Louisiana native graduating from West Ouachita.  He participated in football, basketball and baseball where he was a captain.  Coach Smith went to Louisiana College where he participated in baseball before graduating from the University of Louisiana-Monroe .  As a varsity basketball coach his teams have 541 wins and a 72% winning percentage.  His teams have made the playoffs 24 out of 28 seasons, including a state tournament appearance.  He has coached at Neville (La.), Malakoff, Austin Westwood, Austin Westlake , Longview and Robinson (Waco).  Coach Smith also founded and hosted a basketball camp called Texas Hoops in Maui, Hawaii for 8 summers.


Coach Smith is excited to be a part of Pirate athletics!