Episcopal football coaches



David Hess
Varsity Head Coach 
Coach David Hess is beginning his fourth year as head football coach at Episcopal High School. Coach Hess was born and raised in Jacksonville and attended Lee High School where he was an all-conference football player for Corky Rogers.

Upon completing his third season as head football coach at Episcopal, his team was ranked sixth in the state 2B classification by the Florida Sports Writers Association and Massey Ratings, and won the first-ever district championship in the school’s history. In addition, the Florida Athletic Coaches Association voted him as the 2007 District 6 “Coach of the Year” for all classifications. In the past three years the Episcopal program has grown from 73 players to 98 players. Although Episcopal suffered through three losing seasons prior to Coach Hess’ arrival in 2005, after one season he was able to transform the School into a winning program.  

During the 2004 football season, Coach Hess was the assistant head football coach at Mandarin High School. The team won the 6A District 1 championship and Mandarin’s first playoff win ever. In 2003, as the junior varsity head football coach at Fleming Island High School, his team’s record was four wins and two losses for this first year program. Prior to that, he was assistant varsity football coach at Ridgeview High School.     
 
Before coaching at the high school level, Coach Hess spent 14 years as the head coach of youth football (12-16 year olds) at Lakeshore Athletic Association in Jacksonville. His teams have a compiled record of 134 wins and 18 losses, and have combined to win seven city, four regional and one national championship. Sixteen of his players have gone on with Division-I college scholarships, most notably Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow.
 
Coach Hess has a master’s degree in business administration from Jacksonville University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of North Florida. He brings 11 years of corporate managerial experience and six years of teaching experience to Episcopal High School. He and his wife, Belinda, have three children, Candice, Chandler, and Connor.  
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Carl Hargrove
Junior Varsity Head Coach

Mike Rickey
Middle School Head Coach
Middle School Wrestling Head Coach
Middle School Softball Head Coach
Coach Mike Rickey has been coaching at Episcopal for 12 years, and is a two-time winner of the John Ryan Excellence in Coaching Award at Episcopal. Rickey has coached softball for seven years within a recreational and travel ball setting, and has led his team to a state championship as well as to a third-place finish in the southeast regional tournament. Coach Rickey feels that players should be fundamentally sound in order to be successful. He expects his players to give 110% at all practices and games, and expects his players to go above and beyond what is asked to improve their game.

Coach Rickey also the Middle School football head coach and the Middle School wrestling head coach.

Tim Eusey
Defensive Coordinator
Junior Varsity Baseball Head Coach 
Coach Tim Eusey joined the Episcopal coaching staff in 2005. In addition to coaching the junior varsity baseball team, he has also served as the quarterback coach and offensive coordinator under Coach David Hess. Tim has been a full-time member of the athletic facility grounds staff since 2003. He was a multi-year letterman in football, basketball and baseball at Lee High School, earning first team All-Gateway Conference honors in football. Eusey has nine years of coaching experience at the youth football level, including two years as head coach at Lakeshore Athletic Association. He has an Associate of Arts degree from FCCJ, and is currently working towards his bachelor's degree in criminal justice at UNF.

Terry Jackson
Defensive Secondary Coach
Coach Terry Jackson previously was a standout athlete at Forrest High School where he was also a sprinter on the track team during his junior and senior years. Coach Jackson was a three-year varsity football letterman earning All-Gateway Conference honors and Honorable Mention All-City honors his senior year. It was during his senior year when he led the city with 11 interceptions in 2000. Coach Jackson attended FCCJ and is currently pursuing a career as a firefighter.

Charlie Hunt
Assistant Coach
Coach Charlie Hunt has been coaching both football and track at Episcopal for 25 years. A Jacksonville native, he graduated from Wolfson High School, where he played football and ran track, competing in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay. Coach Hunt received a football scholarship to Florida State University as a defensive end. He was then drafted by the San Francisco 49ers where he played two years as an outside linebacker before being traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He also played for the Canadian Football League, WFL, USFL, and AFA before retiring from football.

Coach Hunt currently coaches the varsity football linemen and is the varsity track and field head coach, specializing in training the sprinters. After several runner-up finishes at state competitions, his girls won the 2A state championship in 2007. Hunt has coached numerous individual state champions, most recently Daisy Glasser ’07, Laura Steel ’08 and Maggie Traylor ’08. In addition to coaching, he also owns his own gym, Definitions, where he is a personal trainer.

Alex Graham '00
Assistant Coach
Coach Alex Graham joined Episcopal as an offensive line coach in 2006. While at Episcopal, he lettered in football and baseball. Coach Graham graduated from The University of the South in 2004, majoring in European history and minoring in political science and environmental studies. Coach Graham lettered in football and played club rugby at Sewanee. In December 2007 he will graduate with a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law, and is engaged to be married to Caroline Brinton ’02.

Harry Schmeising
Assistant Coach 

Brenden Bledsoe '98
Assistant Coach 
This is Coach Bledsoe's third season as the offensive line coach for the varsity football team and as the shot put coach for the track team.  He played football for two years at Northeastern University, and graduated from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor of business administration in 2004.  His younger brother is Clark Bledsoe '09, and he currently serves as the district executive for the Boy Scouts of America.

Danny Vega
Assistant Coach
Coach Danny Vega joins Episcopal as the junior varsity offensive coordinator and varsity running backs coach. He was a multi-year letterman in football, wrestling and golf at Lee High School, earning All-Gateway Conference honors in wrestling his junior and senior years. In addition to seven years of coaching experience, he has a bachelor’s degree in business management from UNF, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in youth development from Clemson University.

Tommy Walter
Assistant Coach
Coach Walter is beginning his fourth year as press box coach for Episcopal football.  Coach Walter is a veteran of West Texas (featured in Friday Night Lights) Junior High, High School and Junior College as a football player and coach, and has been involved with the game for over 50 years.  His coaching record includes district, bi-district and regional championships, and he has two undefeated and two untied seasons.  Coach Walter is a graduate of Angelo State University and has a doctorate in adult education from Nova Southeastern University.  Dr. Walter is currently director of academics and assistant professor for Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Jacksonville Center.  He is married to his wife, Jan, and they have one son and one grandson.

Chris McCaulley
Middle School Assistant Coach

Randy Reaves '01
Middle School Assistant Coach

Brian Roseberry
Middle School Assistant Coach
Varsity Boys Basketball Head Coach
Middle School Baseball Assistant Coach
Coach Brian Roseberry has been coaching basketball at Episcopal since 1997. Starting as the Middle School head coach, Brian quickly moved to assistant varsity coach, then junior varsity coach, and since 2000 has served as head basketball coach. Prior to joining  Episcopal, Coach Roseberry was an assistant coach for the Florida All-Stars, a five-star resident coach, a five-star NCAA resident coach and a five-star NBA team champion. He also received the Excellence in Coaching Award in 2001.

Coach Roseberry has also been an assistant football coach since 1997, and an assistant baseball coach since 2005.

Henry Williams
Middle School Assistant Coach