Coaching Staff

Coach jones

This year, Coach Jones continues the journey at Pinnacle High School to mark his 10th year coaching track & field. Coach Jones has over a decade of coaching experience, seven years of that was in scholastic sports. Jones spent four years coaching baseball from club to high school and started Arizona's first high school trap & skeet shotgun team.

With his sights set on continuing his successful coaching career at Pinnacle HS, Coach Jones has created a network of skilled events coaches to help track and field athletes achieve their highest standards. The priorities of the Pioneer Track and Field team is to compete as a system within individual events. Excellence and commitment to each competitor's event is the foundation for success with this team. Pinnacle is dedicated to teaching team unity, responsibility, perseverance, and commitment to their track and field athletes.

Contact Coach Jones at jjones@pvschools.net

COACH SHANNON

Assistant Coach

Distance Runners Coach

Coach Shannon is a local product of the Paradise Valley School District who then went on to ASU to earn his bachelors degree in K-12 Physical Education. He is also a USATF Level 1 Certified Coach. While not coaching cross country and track and field at Pinnacle he can be found coaching Explorer Middle School's Distance Track and Field athletes as well as teaching Physical Education to students at Desert Shadows Elementary.

His proudest accomplishment was having a team GPA of 3.8 over the course of his tenure at Shadow Mountain. Pinnacle Cross Country's current average team GPA sits at 4.00, a true testament to putting the student before the athlete.