Coaching Staff
Name: Seth Vansell
Position: Varsity Head Coach
Email: svansell@gunterisd.org
Years of Coaching Experience: 9 years
Family Members: Wife-Rachel, Daughter-Kaidance(6) & Son-Ricky(2)
Favorite Basketball Team: The Oklahoma City Thunder
Favorite Basketball Player of All Time: Nick Collison
Why I Coach: My hope is to help student athletes learn and embrace values that will allow them to be successful leaders in all they do now, and in the future. I coach to build positive leaders.
Name: Andrew Applewhite
Position: JV Blue Head Coach, Varsity Assistant
Email: Aapplewhite@gunterisd.org
Years of Coaching Experience: 13 years
Family Members: Wife-Hannah, Two Sons-Jaxen & Kobey
Favorite Basketball Team: Dallas Mavericks
Favorite Basketball Player of All Time: Dirk Nowitzki
Why I Coach: I am a competitor, lover of sports, and enjoy having a positive impact on the youth in our society. I can’t think of a better profession to be a part of where I can accomplish all those things at the same time!
Name: Casey Frost
Position: JV White Head Coach
Email: cfrost@gunterisd.org
Years of Coaching Experience: 5 years
Family Members: Cary and Scarlett Frost(Dad and Mom), A.J. Murray(Brother)
Favorite Basketball Team: Golden State Warriors
Favorite Basketball Player of All Time: Da Goat (M.J.)
Why I Coach: I coach because I love the game and what it can teach you on and off the field/court. It gives me an opportunity to share the knowledge to young athletes that was taught to me and helped make me the man I am today.
Name: Daryl Hellman
Position: Middle School Coach
Email: Dhellman@gunterisd.org
Years of Coaching Experience: 25 years
Family Members: Wife Lee Angela, son RyLee and daughter KyLee (23) twins, son Ty (21), son Ivy (16)
Favorite Basketball Team: The MJ Bulls
Favorite Basketball Player of All Time: Michael Jordan
Why I Coach: “Coaching and teaching is a mission field. I enjoy being a positive part of a young person’s life development.”
Name: Jordan Gill
Position: Middle School Coach
Email: Jgill@gunterisd.org
Years of Coaching Experience: 3 years
Family Members: Wife Katelyn
Favorite Basketball Team: San Antonio Spurs
Favorite Basketball Player of All Time: Michael Jordan
Why I Coach: I coach because I understand the value that sports play in a persons life, and how that can be influenced by a coach. Leadership and toughness mixed with respect and humility are learned traits, and I want to be a part of people becoming great. And the best way to lead kids is by serving