Joe Eineker HEAD VARSITY

Joe Eineker enters his third year at St. Pius X Catholic High School.  He comes to us from Milton High School where as the head coach he led the program to two consecutive state sweet sixteen appearances, including a 24 win season in 2005-2006.  Prior to joining Milton, Joe was an assistant coach at Chattahoochee High School under then head coach Duke Mullis, where he helped lead their program to three region championship games, winning two Region Championships in 2002-2003 and 2003-2004; the sweet sixteen twice and one elite eight appearance 2003-2004.  A graduate of Montclair State University 1994, Joe played college basketball for two years at Washington College in Maryland and began his coaching career in his hometown of Bloomfield, NJ.  He teaches in the study support program at St. Pius X.  He and his wife, Calandra reside in Alpharetta and have two children, Sydney, age 5, and David, 3.

Don sherwood VARSITY ASSISTANT

Coach Sherwood begins his fifth year at St. Pius X as an assistant coach. He is coming from LaFayette High School, where as the head coach he rebuilt a decimated “Rambler” program and was named North Georgia Coach of The Year by the Chattanooga Times-Free Press in 2004. Coach Sherwood has also been the head coach at St. Andrew’s School, Wayne County H.S. and Mount de Sales Academy. At Mount de Sales Sherwood’s teams had an 83 – 21 record, won three regular season region championships and one state championship.  Coach Sherwood teaches Math and Health at St. Pius X. He and his wife Caran have two boys, Thomas, age 10 and Nathan, age 8.

KEITH PITTMAN JUNIOR VARSITY & 8TH GRADE

Coach Pittman, a 1985 St. Pius X alum, enters his thirteenth year as a community coach at St. Pius X. Coach Pittman has been the JV basketball coach since 1998. His mother was in the first SPX graduating class in 1959 where she played on the first girls' basketball team – coached by the legendary George B. Maloof. Coach Pittman's favorite parts of coaching are getting to know the players better and going to summer camp, where his teams can hopefully show other parts of the country a better brand of basketball.

Coach Cohen was a 4 year starter at North Springs High School, where he was named captain his Sophomore year and remained captain until he graduated. Coach Cohen then went on to play at Oglethorpe University.

This is his second year coaching at St. Pius X.

Rick Smith FRESHMAN

Rick is in his sixth year with the SPX program, serving as the freshman coach.  A graduate of Columbia High School and DeKalb College, Rick was a multi-sport athlete at both. Rick has coached for 27 years with stops at Columbia High School, Clarkston High School, and Bethune Middle School.  Rick  and his wife Allison have 3 children, Derek a junior at Anderson College, Alaina a freshman at Converse College, and Ricky Jr in the 9th grade.

Butch liddell 7TH GRADE

Coach Liddell enters his fifth season as the 7th grade basketball coach. A graduate of Sequoyah High School in Doraville, Georgia, Coach Liddell played basketball and baseball at Middle Georgia College before moving on to play basketball at Georgia Southern. While at Middle Georgia, Coach Liddell's basketball team finished 9th in the nation among Junior Colleges. Prior to coming to coach at St. Pius X, Coach Liddell coached in the St. Thomas More program for 4 seasons. Butch is currently employed by Tal-Kno Building Products and has a wife, Glenna, and son, Blake, who was a Student Assistant for the boy's basketball program and graduated in 2006 and is presently attending Georgia Tech majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

Juan Sans

6th Grade

This is Juan's second season as the 6th grade basketball coach at SPX.   A graduate of GMC High School in middle Georgia where he was a multi-sport athlete including being a four year starter on the varsity basketball team.  Juan is also a graduate of the United States Military Academy.  He has coached every grade level of basketball at Immaculate Heart of Mary. Juan and his wife, Kari, have two children, Sebastian a sophomore at SPX and Addison an 8th grader at IHM.  Juan is currently employed by Hitachi Data Systems as Senior Director of Global Compensation and Performance Management.

Todd Davis

6th Grade

Todd has coached youth basketball for 9 years. He has coached varying levels from 7 year olds at All Saints Catholic Church in Dunwoody to 14 and under AAU out of St. Pius. His favorite part of coaching is watching the growth in the players and the increased self esteem that added confidence brings. Todd was a multi-sport athlete in high school where he grew up in northern Ohio . He attended the Ohio State University for both undergrad and dental school. Todd and his wife, Lisa, have three boys. Dillon and Spencer are a junior and sophomore, respectively, at St. Pius. Ian is a seventh grader at St. Jude.

Dwight Smith

6 th Grade

Dwight has been coaching youth sports for the past seven years. He has been coaching the past five years at All Saints Catholic Church in Dunwoody. He also has been coaching baseball and football at Murphey Candler Park the past six years. Dwight is a graduate of Peachtree High School in Dunwoody where he played five years of basketball. Dwight and his wife Erin have three children, Katie, a sophomore at SPX; Kyle a 7th grader at Peachtree Middle School ; and Kevin, who is in 6th grade. Dwight is currently employed as a senior tax manager at Frazier & Deeter, LLC.