Hightower High School athletic coordinator and head football coach Gene Johnson has been named to the same position at Cypress Ranch High School. Cypress Ranch will open with a full slate of sub-varsity games for all sports this fall. After adding an additional grade, the Mustangs will begin varsity competition for all sports except football during the 2009/2010 school year.
Johnson, who also was the campus athletic coordinator and head football coach at Klein Forest High School from 2000-2003, has accumulated a record of 61-24 with his most recent season ending in a regional final loss to North Shore High School.
A four-year letterman for the football program at Louisiana Tech University, Johnson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance in 1992. He later went on earn his master’s degree in Human Performance and Recreation from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed his mid-management certification through the education department at Prairie View A&M University.
“The opportunity to join Mrs. Medford at Cypress Ranch is very exciting,” Johnson said. “It will be such a unique experience to work with the first ever students to walk through the doors at Cypress Ranch. It truly is a once in a lifetime chance and we hope that our student-athletes will be able to look back on their experiences with the fondest memories.”
Johnson is married to the former Natalie Bracey of Dayton. Natalie is a teacher/coach at Wunderlich Intermediate in Klein ISD.
