KEITH KNOWLES 

Campus Athletic Coordinator / Head Football Coach / Offensive Tackles

Experience: Fifth year at Clements and eleventh year coaching overall.

Previously coached at Kingwood and Beaumont Kelly High Schools and Liberty Hill Middle School.

Coaching Achievements: Defensive Coordinator for CHS - State Quarterfinalists in ’07 and District Champions in ’06

Education: Lamar University, B.S. in Kinesiology

Wife: Andrea                 

Son: Kallen

BRETT SNIFFIN

Assistant Head Coach / Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks / Defensive Tackles / Offseason Football Coordinator

Offseason: Track Assistant Coach

Experience: Fifth year at Clements and seventeenth year coaching overall. Previously coached seven years at Lamar Consolidated High School and five years at Hudson High School in Hudson, Iowa.

Coaching Achievements:  Special Teams Coordinator for CHS - State Quarterfinalists in  ’07 and District Champions in ’06; Defensive Coordinator for the Class 1A 1994 State Champions, Hudson, Iowa

Education: University of Houston – Victoria, M. Ed.; Upper Iowa University, B.A.; Ellsworth Jr. College - played baseball

Wife: Jeanna           

Sons: Jacob and Joseph

BEN DUHON

Defensive Coordinator / Tight Ends / Linebackers

Offseason: Track Assistant Coach

Experience: Third year at Clements and ninth year coaching overall. Previously coached two years at Hightower High School and one year at Sulphur and three years at Iowa High Schools in Louisiana.

Coaching Achievements: CHS State Quarterfinalists in ’07 and District Champions in ’06; helped coach two other district champions in football and two in baseball

Education: McNeese State University, B.S. in Secondary Math Education, Minor in Social Studies; 4-year letterman in football; Academic All-American Linebacker.  Played high school football and baseball and ran track.

Wife: Virginia              

Children: Davis, Aislyn

KEVIN BYRD

Special Teams Coordinator / Centers / Guards / Defensive Ends

Offseason:  Girls Track Head Coach

Experience: Second year at Clements and ninth year coaching overall.

Previously coached three years at Giddings, one year at Seguin and two years at Spring High Schools.

Coaching Achievements: HS State Quarterfinalists in ‘07, ’06, ‘05

Education: Hardin-Simmons University, B.B.S. in History and English; Four-year letterman in football at Hardin-Simmons.

Wife: Nicole             

Daughter: Bailee

CHRIS FISHER

Varsity Assistant / Running Backs / Safeties

Offseason: Boys Track Head Coach

Experience: Fifth year at Clements and eighth year coaching overall. Previously coached for three years at Fort Settlement Middle School.

Achievement: Played on the 1992 Texas State 4A Football Championship Team from Waxahachie High School.

College: University of Texas at Austin, B.S. Kinesiology, Minor in Biology  

Wife: Tobi                   

Son: Jack

BOBBY DARNELL

Varsity Assistant / Receivers / Cornerbacks

Offseason: JV Basketball Coach

Experience: First year at Clements and fifth year coaching overall.

Previously coached four years at Bush High School.

Coaching Achievements: Regional Qualifiers in Track at Bush.

Education: Baylor University, M.S. in Education/Sports Management, B.A. in Telecommunications, four year letterman in football from ’98 – ’02 as a receiver.

Clements Connection: CHS graduate, class of 1997. Three-year starter in football. All District 1^st Team selection in “96 and ’95. Holds numerous school records in football including longest TD reception (96 yards). He was a four-year letterman in Track. Lettered in Basketball as well.

Wife: Carly                   

Sons: Micah, Marcus and Maddox

BRENT EVATT

Head JV Football Coach / Running Backs / Defensive Backs

Offseason: Assistant Track Coach

Experience: First year at Clements and sixteenth year in coaching overall. Previously coached at Comanche, Foster, Willis, Clyde, and Bellville. Four-sport letterman at Early HS: Football, basketball, track, and golf (state qualifier).

Coaching Achievements: 2004 Houston Area Blue-Chip All-Star Football Game; 2004 Gulf Coast Coaches Association Football Clinic Lecture.

Education: B.S. at Tarleton State; M.Ed. at Prairie View A&M.

Wife: Kelli                                

Children:  Madison, Brandon, and Blain

JASON PARSONS

JV Assistant Football Coach / Offensive Line / Linebackers

Offseason: Assistant Track Coach

Experience: Fourth year at Clements and seventh year in coaching overall. Previously coached two years at Brownwood, one year at Lorena and one year at Natalia High Schools. Played high school football and ran track in McGregor, Texas.

Education: Texas State University, B.A. in Exercise Sports Science

Wife: Misty                                

Children:  Dana and Alex

JAMES KOWALEWSKI

JV Assistant Football Coach / Offensive Line / Defensive Ends

Offseason: Freshman Basketball Coach

Experience: Second year at Clements. Previously coached at Austin College, Sherman Texas for one year.

Education: Austin College, M.A. in Education, B.S. in History, lettered in football all four years; Academic All-Conference.

High School: FB Austin High School Class of ’02, Two-year letterman in Football, Two time All-District Offensive Lineman, Varsity Captain.

Two-year letterman in Track and Regional Finalist in Shot Put.

JV Assistant Football Coach / Receivers / Defensive Line

Offseason: Varsity Baseball Assistant Coach

Experience: First year coaching at Clements. Previously was head baseball coach at New Philadelphia HS in Ohio for 10 years; junior high and freshman football coach in New Philadelphia, Ohio, for 6 years; junior high basketball coach there for 5 years.

Coaching Achievements: Eastern District Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2003, in Ohio.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Political Science at Allegheny College.  Played four years of baseball at Indiana University and Allegheny College.

High School: Four-year letterman in baseball, three-year letterman in basketball at Jefferson Union HS.

Clements Connection: First teaching position was at CHS in 1997.  Three nieces attended CHS.

Wife: Karen.  Married 18 years.                   

Children: Conner, Tyler, and Jenna

ISRAEL DE LOS SANTOS

Head Freshman Football Coach / Running Backs / Defensive Backs

Offseason: Varsity Baseball Head Coach

Experience: Eighth year at Clements. Previously coached at Deer Park and Tomball High Schools.

Education: Houston Baptist University, B.S. in History, Kinesiology and Secondary Education

Wife: Courtney            

Children: Brianna, Alyssa, Trey, Brooks

Clements Connection:  Courtney is a graduate of Clements.

CHRIS CARREJO

Freshman Assistant Football Coach / Offensive Line / Linebackers

Offseason: JV Baseball

Experience: First year at Clements. Previously coached 3 years at George Bush HS (2005-2008).  Three-year letterman in baseball at Leander HS.

Coaching Achievements: 2008 HABCA All-Star Coach (baseball)

Education: University of Texas at Austin, B.A. in Government

Wife: Tanya.  Child on the way.

Freshman Assistant Football Coach / Receivers / Defensive Ends

Offseason: Freshman Basketball Coach

Experience: First year coaching at Clements. Lettered in football and track at Fort Bend Austin HS.  Played on nationally-ranked Ultimate Frisbee Club Team at Texas A&M. 

Education: Texas A&M University, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Wife: Angie

Clements Connection:  Played on the last Austin HS football team to beat Clements, in 2002.

Freshman Assistant Football Coach / Offensive Line / Defensive Line

Offseason: Baseball

Experience: First year at Clements. Previously coached 5 years at Bastrop HS.  Played football and baseball at LaMarque HS (1998 graduate).  Played baseball at Huston-Tillotson University.

Education: Huston-Tillotson University, B.A. in Education/History, 2003.

GLEN "DOC" STROECH

Head Athletic Trainer

Experience: Third year at Clements and thirty-third year coaching. Most recently was Head Trainer at Katy Morton Ranch High School for two years; Calallen High School for twenty-three years and Georgetown High School for five years.             

Achievements: Head Athletic Trainer for four State Championship Teams and one State Quarterfinalist Team (Clements)

Education: Texas A & M University, M.Ed., B.S.; Student Athletic Trainer at TAMU and at Blinn Junior College.

Wife: Dorothy                Daughter: Megan