Enid High Basketball Coaches & Staff

Plainsmen Coaches & Staff

Head Coach TJ Scholz

Head Coach TJ Scholz Enid High Basketball PlainsmenT. J. Scholz is entering his fourth year as a coach at Enid High. Scholz has served as an assistant the three previous years and is now the head of the Plainsmen replacing his friend and mentor Will Jones. Scholz is a graduate of Oklahoma State University where he earned a degree in Secondary Education and a minor in Mathematics. During college, Scholz served as an assistant under David Page at Yale High School for two years and at Pawnee High School in 2005, where the team won the Class 2A state championship. Aft er graduating from college, Coach Scholz taught a year in Colby, Kansas before moving back to Oklahoma. where he has resided in Enid the past three years. Sholz has also been involved in other coaching duties including baseball, football and soft ball during his tenure at Enid.

Coach Scholz has been married to his wife, Heather Scholz for almost two years. Heather will graduate from Northwestern, Enid branch in December and serves as a Mary Kay consultant.

 

Assistant Coach
Billy Karr

Assistant Coach Billy Karr Enid High Plainsmen BasketballBilly Karr is entering his first year as an assistant coach of the Plainsmen. Billy currently teaches U.S. Government and Enriched World History at Enid High and will also coach JV Baseball. Karr is a graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science Education in 2004. Billy was the Head High School Boys Basketball Coach at Hominy High School the previous five seasons from 2004-2009. He accumulated an overall record of 75 wins and 48 losses durting this time, while also coaching 12 All Conference and 3 MVP players. Karr was also Northern Oklahoma Conference Coach of the Year four of the fi ve seasons at Hominy. Prior to his time in Hominy, Billy was an assistant at Okarche High School under Ray West for six years in which they compiled 116 wins and 30 losses with 3 State Tournament appearances, a Tournament of Champions appearance, 5 Conference Championships and having coached 3 All Staters.

 

Assistant Coach
Jared Burford

Assistant Coach Jared Burford Enid High Plainsmen BasketballJerod Burford is a graduate of Drummond High School and a 2002 graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in education. Burford also received his Masters in Secondary Education in 2005 from Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Coach Burford began his coaching career in 2002 at Enid as an assistant High School Girls basketball coach under Nicky Cooper. During his fi rst year he was able to get his fi rst taste of the State Tournament. In 2006 Burford became the head Girls/Boys HS/JR basketball coach. While there he took the High School slow pitch and fast pitch soft ball teams to their fi rst State Tournament appearances. He was also named the Northwest Oklahoma Coach of the Year foor slow pitch and fast pitch by the Enid News and Eagle for the Fall and Spring of 2006. In 2008 he ventured to Waukomis to take over the HS/JR Boys basketball and High School track. Coach Burford has been married to his beautiful wife Kim for four years. Kim is a RN for Integris Pain Management Center. They have been blessed with 2 boys, Baylor (2) and Boston (born in April).

 

Head Freshman Coach
Carl Gaebler

Carl Gaebler was a three sport stand out from Hominy High School and a graduate of Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa. He spent two years there as the basketball student assistant coach under legendary coach Mick Weiberg. Gaebler is entering his third season as assistant coach of the Plainsmen as well as coach of the freshmen basketball team. Gaebler is also the assistant coach of the Plainsmen tennis team. Carl was married in August 2008. His wife, Niki, is pursuing a degree in respiratory therapy and is currently employed by Intregris Bass Hospital.

 

 

 

Plainsmen & Pacers Head Trainer
Rob Kappus

Rob Kappus Head Trainer Enid High Basketball Plainsmen & PacersKappus returns for his 9th season at Enid High School. Kappus is a 1991 graduate of Bishop Kelley High School, where he was a trainer for the football and soccer teams. He attended St. Gregory‘s Junior College, where he was a trainer for the basketball team. He earned a bachelor‘s degree in health and sports sciences at the University of Oklahoma, and had a minor in history. While at OU, he was a volunteer trainer at Norman High School. After completing his undergraduate work, he attended the University of Tulsa, where he provided physical therapy at Eastern Oklahoma Orthopedic Center as a graduate assistant. He was also the athletic trainer at Charles Page High School. Kappus is employed by Intergris Bass Baptist Heath Center in Enid.

 

Managers:

Tazjhe Porter, Denya Hall, Haley Hudson, Lacey Hudson

 

 

Pacers Coaches & Staff

Head Coach
Layne Jones

Head Coach Layne Jones Enid High Pacers BasketballCoach Jones enters his 2nd year as the head coach of the Pacers after spending 2 seasons as an assistant coach for the Plainsmen and Coach Will Jones.  Graduated from Tonkawa High School in 1991, high school basketball coach was Larry Case.  Attended NOC Tonkawa and graduated there in 1993.  Attended OSU from 1993-95 and was a student manager on the men’s basketball team that reached the Final Four in 1995.  Finished undergraduate degree at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford in 1997. 

Was an assistant coach at Elk City for 2 years under head coach Jim Deaton coached team that reached the semi-finals of 4A State Tournament.  Became head boys basketball coach and girls softball coach at Hennessey in 1998.  Coached fast-pitch softball team to first state tournament in school history, most wins in school history, and also coached slow-pitch team to a state semi-finals appearance.  Was named Northwest Oklahoma coach of the year by the Enid News and Eagle in Fall of 2000.  Also was named Middle West All State Coach in spring of 2000. 

Coached for 2 years as an assistant at Los Fresnos High School in far south Texas and coached at Frisco High School in Frisco, Texas under Steve Specht for a team that set school record for number of wins and reached the 2nd round of the Class 4A playoffs.  Also volunteered time with Chinese National basketball team in preparation for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.  Team was coached by Del Harris and included NBA star Yao Ming.  Also broadcasts sports on the radio, most recently area high school football games of the week for Chisholm Trail Broadcasting on AM 1640 The Score. 

Layne enjoys spending time with his wife, Tara and his 5 year old step-son, Blake.  Hobbies include live music, OSU sports, playing guitar, running, hunting and hanging out with his 9 year old boxer, Josephine Marie.  Layne is the son of Kathryn Jones in Tulsa, and the late Ralph Jones, both former Enid residents and public secondary and higher education administrators.

Assistant Coach
Robb Mills

Assistant Coach Robb Mills Enid High Pacers BasketballRobb Mills is a graduate of Altus High School. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2002 with a degree in Education. Coach Mills taught his first year in Altus, Oklahoma where he coached basketball, football and baseball. He moved to Enid to be part of the Pacer program. This is his seventh year with the Pacers. Along with coaching basketball, he is also a part of the football staff at the High School. Coach Mills has been married to his wife Carrie for over four years now. Carrie teaches kindergarten at Glenwood Elementary. They have a son named Brody.

Assistant Coach
Corey Sauser

Coach Sauser is entering his first year as an assistant coach of the Pacers.  Sauser grew up in Cassville, Wisconsin where he was a three sport athlete.  He was a three year starter on basketball teams that would finish state runner-up twice and win gold his senior year.  During that three year span the teams accumulated a record of 72-8. After graduation he would continue playing junior college basketball at MATC-Madison where he captained the team his second year.  He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville where he earned a degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Social Sciences.  Coach Sauser began his coaching career in Cassville as the head baseball coach, junior high basketball coach and assistant football coach.   He also coaches seventh grade football at Enid.

 

Assistant Coach
Marie Sullivan

Student Teacher and Enid High School.

 

Managers

Mikaela Malatin, LaTisha Caldwell, Brittany Gracey