HIGHLANDER BASEBALL COACHING STAFF

 

HEAD COACH RON EASTMAN

Coach Ron Eastman enters his tenth season as Head Baseball Coach of The Woodlands High School and as the Coach with the most wins in Highlander history compiling a record of 232 wins and 61 loses.  His overall record in 17 years as a Head Coach is 355-162.


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SHANE GRAVES

Coach Shane Graves has been with The Woodlands Highlander baseball program for fourteen years. He is a graduate of Nacogdoches High School where he played football and baseball. Coach Graves played college baseball at Stephen F. Austin State University and is a 1995 graduate of Texas A&M University. Coach Graves has served as the pitching coach for the Highlanders for 9 years including the 2006 State Championship. He also coaches football at The Woodlands.  He and his wife Dina have a daughter Peyton(8), and twins, son Bryce and daughter Rylie (5).

CHRIS HARDEN

Coach Chris Harden enters his nineth year as Assistant Coach for The Woodlands Highlander Varsity team. He is a 1988 graduate of Cheboygan High School, Cheboygan, MI, where he played Varsity baseball, football and basketball. He attended Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI, where he earned his Bachelors in Math Education in 1997. At Ferris State he was a four-year Varsity baseball player. In 1993, he was named the MVP for the Ferris State University Baseball Team, and in the same season made Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 1st Team AllConference. Coach Harden is currently a Math teacher at TWHS. This is his 12th year of teaching, the last 10 with CISD. He is a single parent with eleven year old twin sons, Jarrod & Jordan. He is the son of Richard & Lucy.

BARRY WILSON

Coach Barry Wilson enters his tenth year with the Highlander baseball program, and his 19th year in education.  In addition to being the Junior Varsity coach, he is responsible for training the catchers in the program.  Prior to coming to The Woodlands HS, Coach Wilson was at Montgomery HS, Conroe HS, and McAdams JHS in Dickinson. He is a 1981 graduate of Cy-Fair HS in Houston, and received his B. A. in English Literature from Texas A&M University in 1986, and his M. Ed. from Sam Houston State 2008.  Coach Wilson has two children, Braxton, 20 and Ragan, 12.

BRYAN HILL

Coach Bryan Hill enters his eleventh season with the Highlander baseball program and fifth year as head coach for the sophomore team. Coach Hill is in his thirteenth year of teaching/coaching and tenth year in CISD. He has coached at Knox Junior High (1998 – 2000), at Branch Crossing Junior High (2000 – 2005), and is currently teaching Biology and coaching football and baseball at TWHS 9th Grade Campus. Coach Hill graduated from Glen Oaks High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1986, where he made All-District and team MVP as a catcher. He also caught at Gulf Coast CC and Henderson State University, graduating from there in 1992. Coach Hill and wife, Ronda, have a 8-year-old son, Bridger, and 3 year old twins Calli and Camden.

CHAD ROZELLE

Coach Chad Rozelle is in his second year with the The Highlander Baseball Program assisting at all levels. Before coming to The Woodlands he served as the JV coach at College Park High School from 2005-2008. Prior to College Park, Coach Rozelle coached The Woodlands Sophomore baseball team for 7 years and was a proud member of the coaching staff that won the 2000 5A State Championship. Coach Rozelle is a 1996 graduate of Texas A&M and enjoys playing golf.

JEFF LILLEY

Jeff is entering his third year as an assistant for the Sophomore team.  He currently teaches at McCullough Junior High.  Jeff graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, (now Louisiana-Lafayette).  He coached baseball for two years in Louisiana at Merryville High and Oberlin High  and then moved to Texas and coached baseball at Hull-Daisetta High School.  After five years at Hull-Daisetta, Coach Lilley moved to Cypress with his wife Katrina and their two kids, Kaitlyn and Carter.