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Darin Bassett
Darin Bassett
HEAD COACH
Coach Bassett is in his 5th year of coaching high school after 22 years of coaching on the ATP Circuit and running tennis programs around Southern California. Bassett played on the European, African and U.S. Satellite Circuits before taking advantage of an offer to coach on the ATP circuit where he had the pleasure of working with Dutch player Jacco Van Duyn #249 Doubles ATP. In the junior's Bassett trained current pros Taylor Fritz, a Wimbledon Jr. Semifinalist #3 ITF, and CoCo Vandeweghe, #33 WTA.
Bassett was born in Orange, California then moved to Florida to train at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy where he fell in love with the coaching aspect of tennis. Coach Bassett has been a USPTA certified Elite Professional since 1995.
"I am looking forward to a long career at Cedar Ridge sharing what I have learned over the years and I see Raider Tennis making a name for itself as the seasons past."
Roger De Roeck
Roger De Roeck
ASSISTANT COACH
My name is Roger De Roeck and I’m excited to be the assistant tennis coach this year. I ran cross country and track in high school and college and wanted to coach those sports but fell in love with the lifetime sport of tennis. I have head coached tennis at Copperas Cove High school, Pflugerville and Connally High schools in PFISD. I graduated from the University of Arkansas and have been married to my beautiful bride Melinda for 34 years. We have 2 married children and 2 awesome grandkids who call me POPS. When I’m not teaching or coaching I enjoy gardening, reading, and watching movies.
Previous Coaches
Previous Coaches
Cori Pool
Cori Pool is originally from Deer Park, Texas. She is married to Brent Pool, who is the Cedar Ridge Golf coach. Coach Pool has over 40 years of tennis experience as both a player and coach. She has coached high school tennis for 14 years. She has coached at Nacogdoches High, Clear Lake High school and is starting her 11th year at Cedar Ridge. Coach Pool attended La Porte High School and played tennis under her father, John Mullins, where she was a 4 year regional qualifier. Coach Pool went on to attended The University of Incarnate Word on an athletic/tennis scholarship. While at UIW she received the All Academic/Athlete Award. Coach Pool continued to play the game she loved as an adult in USTA Leagues. She has been lucky enough to make it to Nationals with multiple teams and won National’s with the Texas Women’s 5.0 + Team in 2013. Coach Pool say’s “Tennis is in my blood, and I am just so blessed to get to do what I love as my career”
Jonathan Hayden
This is Coach Hayden's 9th year teaching English at CRHS, and his 2nd year as tennis assistant (last tour of duty was in 2016 right before he had his first son). He is thrilled to provide the weirdness of an English teacher's perspective to the tennis learning process. We will be strengthening our verbs, exploring abstract ideas with concrete actions, and generally revising our rough drafts of self on a daily basis. He loves playing tennis, cooking, reading, hiking, and spending time with his wife (Ms. Dang helped open CRHS, but stays home for now) and two tiny human sons, Kubo and Rex.
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