Meet the coaches and trainers

Ray Evans
Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach

Coach Evans is a Houston native. He attended Jesse H. Jones High School in HISD, graduating with honors. He attended Texas A&M, Kingsville where he secured a Bachelor of Science in 1977 with a major in Health and Physical Education.

After graduation, Coach Evans worked as an assistant football coach and teacher at Corpus Christi Moody and Corpus Christi West Oso High Schools before moving to the Houston area and beginning his career in HISD in 1982. While in that district, he was an assistant coach at Bellaire and Lamar High Schools, and in 1994 he was named head football coach at Robert E. Lee High School.

In 2000, the football program was discontinued at Lee, so Coach Evans moved to Westbury High School as defensive coordinator. A year later in 2001, he was hired as the head football coach at Jack Yates High School. He remained at Yates until 2005 when he left to take the position of defensive coordinator at Eisenhower. Coach Evans became the athletic coordinator and head football coach at Eisenhower in January, 2008. This is his first year as the leader of the Mighty Eagles.

Coach Evans was named the "Teacher of the Year" at both Bellaire and Lamar High Schools. He was Director of the Greater Houston Football Coaches Association from 2002 to 2003, and was named "Coach of the Year" by the NFL's Houston Texans in 2004.


Kenneth Guiton, Sr.
Assistant Football Coach – Outside Receivers

Coach Guiton is a product of Houston, Texas, graduating from M.B. Smiley in 1980. He attended Lamar University on a Track and Field scholarship and graduated in 1985 with a BS in Physical Education and Health.

Coach Guiton joined the Eisenhower coaching staff in 1992 as a freshmen coach. In addition to coaching football, Coach Guiton has coached both boys and girls track. He became the head girls’ track coach in 1994, where he led the team to the State Track meet in 2002 and 2003. He was also a member of the boy’s track coaching staff that won the State Track meet in 2006. Currently Coach Guiton remains apart of the girls track team in the capacity of assistant girl's track coach.

Coach Guiton is married to Veronica Guiton; he has two children: LaKiesha (27) and Kenny (17), and two grandchildren: Dominique and Aliyah.

Daniel Blanson
Assistant Football Coach - Wide Receivers

Coach Blanson is a graduate of Nimitz High School and Prairie View A&M University where he received a degree in Management Information Systems. In addition to coaching for 3 years, he teaches Business Education and Keyboarding, at Eisenhower.   In his role as wide receiver coach, Blanson helped coordinate the summer 7-on-7 program and assists with the Eagle passing game.

Dan Hawkins
Assistant Football Coach - Defensive Tackles
Assistant Baseball Coach - Sophomores

Coach Hawkins, a native of Lansing Michigan, is a graduate of Minot State University where he played in the offensive backfield and on the offensive line.

After starting his coaching career as a Varsity Assistant at Minot High School in Football and Track for two years, his career took a different turn when he served four years in the United States Navy during the Persian Gulf War and the Desert Storm Conflict. While in the Navy he earned the Navy Achievement Medal, the National Defense Medal and of course the Good Conduct Medal.

In 1994 Coach Hawkins returned to coaching, landing his first Texas job at Galena Park High School. There he eventually became a Varsity Football Assistant and the Head Boys Track Coach under College Coaching Icon Jimmy Dickey Sr. Coach Hawkins accepted a position in 1999 at Crosby High School as the Head Freshman Coach/ Jr High Coordinator and eventually the Varsity Defensive Line Coach . While at Crosby success came in the form of several district championships and playoff births as well as one bi-district championship in 2003.

In 2004 Hawkins came to Eisenhower in the capacity of Director of Football Operations. He has been the Defensive Line Coach, Assistant Linebackers Coach and always the go to guy for football media. In 2008 Coach Hawkins will again return to the Defensive Line serving as the Defensive Tackles Coach.

Coach Hawkins is married to his wife Diane, also an educator, and they have three children, Andrea, Nicholas and Gregory. Gregory and his wife Dawn have recently added the newest addition to the Hawkins clan, their daughter Zoe, who will be a year old in November.

Ricky "Doc" Nelson and Marshalle Bradley
Athletic Trainers

”Doc” Nelson received his Bachelors of Science degree in 1984 and shortly afterwards received his Master’s of Administration from Nicholls State University, located in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Doc is licensed by the state of Texas (L.A.T) and is a nationally certified athletic trainer (A.T.C.).

He spent five years at Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Texas where he taught Health and held the position of Athletic Trainer. In addition, Doc worked with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills from 1985 to 1999, working at their training camp and in some preseason games. He was fortunate enough to attend Super Bowl XXVII with the Bills, although they were beat by the Dallas Cowboys.

In 1992, Doc was the assistant trainer for the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football. During this same year, AISD hired Doc as the athletic trainer at Eisenhower, where he has resided for the last 17 years.

Hubert K. Sthran
Assistant Football Coach - Freshman

Coach Sthran has been coaching in some aspect for 24 years. His career began in Crosby ISD. From 1984 through 1994 he coached all of the middle school sports. He then relocated to the Dallas area and taught in the Duncanville ISD at Reed Middle School where he helped to establish a solid middle school football program along with a very successful basketball program from 1994 through 1997.

Ferris ISD was his next stop for only a year but it was his first opportunity to coach varsity football, junior varsity basketball, and varsity tennis. From 1998 through 2008 Coach Sthran worked in the Desoto ISD and had the chance to help build a dynamic basketball program and a solid tennis program. Now he is part of Aldine ISD and the Eisenhower Eagles. He is elated and honored to be a part of a great staff at Eisenhower High School.

Searcy A. Thomas
Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Coordinator

After graduating from Prairie View A&M University, Coach Thomas began a coaching career that has lasted for 29 years. He began as a secondary coach at Lamar High School in the Houston Independent School District.  From Lamar, Coach Thomas headed for Robert E. Lee High School in 1994 where he became the Defensive Coordinator. 

In 2000 Coach Thomas accepted the job of Offensive Coordinator at Westbury High School.  Coach Evans hired Coach Thomas as his offensive coordinator at Jack Yates High School in 2002, and he stayed at Yates until 2004.  Most recently Coach Thomas served as the Offensive Coordinator at Bellaire High School before coming to Eisenhower.  

Coach Thomas is married to his wife Sheila and has 2 sons, Ike and Durand. 


Dre' Thompson
Assistant Football Coach - Defensive Coordinator, Defensive Backs coach

Coach Thompson is entereing his fourth year at Eisenhower High School and his fourteenth season as a coach/educator. He is a native Houstonian and played football and graduated from James Madison High School in HISD. He went on to graduate from Texas Southern University where he received a Bachelors of Science in Education. Coach Thompson has been married to his wife and high school sweetheart, Andre, for 11 years. He and his wife have two lovely children, Je'lyn (7) and Sean (2.)


Dexter Wesley
Assistant Football Coach - Offensive Line and Equipment Manager

Coach Wesley was raised in Rockdale, Texas, after graduating from Rockdale High School in 1989, he attended Texas A&M University and graduated from there in 1994. He is currently in the graduate school program at PVAMU. Coach Wesley joined the Eisenhower coaching staff in 1998.

Married to Jennifer Wesley, he has 4 children: Braeden 10, Haley 7, Grace 4 and Avery 15 months.

Coach Wesley says,

I love spending time with my family, coaching football and fishing. I have made Ike my home and enjoy working with the students and faculty. SWOOP! SWOOP!