Coaches

Jeremy Trent

It is my privilege to introduce you to the Varsity Basketball coach here at Flint Powers Catholic High School. The 2013-14 season  will mark coach Trent’s 10th season as a varsity head coach and his 15th season being involved in high school basketball.  Coach Trent is no stranger to success at high school basketball. During Coach Trent’s time playing at Swartz Creek High School, he became one of the schools all-time greats and holds many records at Swartz Creek. In his playing career at Swartz Creek, Coach Trent won 1 Big Nine Conference title and 2 District Championships. After his high school days were over, Coach Trent played at college basketball at Mott Community College, and started on a team that won a league championship. That league championship happened to be the first of Coach Steve Schmidt’s career at MCC. Following his freshman year at Mott, Coach Trent played his sophmore season at Alma College. Coach Trent earned the distinction of an Honorable Mention All MIAA Selection as a sophmore at Alma.  His success as a player has followed him into his coaching career. Coach Trent’s first coaching experience came at his alma mater Swartz Creek High School as an assistant under Rory Mattar. Coach Trent spent 5 seasons with Coach Mattar, 2 years at SC and 3 years at Carman-Ainsworth. During their time at C/A, the Cavaliers went to back to back Class A state championship games. It is often said that teams will take on the personality of their coach.  During Coach Trent’s time on the sideline, his teams can be describes as relentless competitors, tough, physical, and intense teams. These attributes are not given by chance. Coach Trent works hard to instill these qualities into his teams. This is evident in what his 9 teams have been able to accomplish. Coach Trent began his head coaching career at Burton Bentley High School, taking over a team that had won 5 games over the previous two seasons. In his second season, Coach Trent guided the Bulldogs to the second best record in school history, 18 wins and 5 losses. I can personally say, as someone who played against Coach Trent’s teams at Bentley both in regular season games and scrimmages, those were some of the toughest and most competitive teams to play in the Genesee County area. In the five years at Bentley, Coach Trent guided the Bulldogs to 4 second place finishes in the GAC and 5 straight district championship game appearances.  Shortly after being hired by Swartz Creek, Coach Trent began helping his players improve their skills and fundamentals. This work put in paid immediate dividends for his players, as they won their first league championship in 20 years, in Coach Trent’s first season as Swartz Creek’s head coach. Coach Trent won an average of 15 games a season during his time at Swartz creek.

Off the floor, Coach Trent has been married to his wife, Becky, for 4 years. He is the father of two boys. His son Zach is a 7th grader at  St. Roberts in Flushing. He and his wife just had baby Cooper in December.   Coach Trent enjoys reading, anything competitive,  following his former players,  and spending  time with his family. –Tim Tenneriello

 

Brad Trent

Varsity Basketball Assistant Coach/ director of basketball operations

Is a 1994 graduate of Swartz Creek High School, graduated in 1999 from UofM Flint with a BBA and earned a MBA from University of Phoenix in 2011.

Coaching experience includes Assistant Varsity Basketball coach at Burton Bentley High School 2005-09 and Swartz Creek High School 2009-2011, and one season at PCHS

Brad currently resides in Linden and enjoys hunting, fishing, boating and spending time with friends/family.  His pet peeves are poor personal hygiene and excuses.  He has been employed at Energy Steel in Lapeer as a Nuclear Sales Engineer since 2008.

Brad will be taking on a new roll this year in our program. After 8 years as my assistant he will be working with coaches and players at all levels throughout our program.  You will be seeing Brad at Freshman and JV practices and on the bench during some games throughout the year.  Brad’s biggest strength is his work ethic and relentless approach to everything he does. He will be working as a ” defensive coordinator ” at all levels of our program.  In my 20 years of being around High school basketball Brad would be one of the best defenders that I’ve seen. – coach Trent 

Aaron O’Brien

Varsity Basketball Assistant Coach

Personal: Aaron is married to wife, Jennifer.  They have a five year old daughter, Jensen.  He is employed at Swartz Creek Community Schools as a 7th grade ELA teacher.  He has worked there for 10 years.  Coach O’Brien earned his Bachelor’s degree from UM-Flint and his Master’s degree from Marygrove College.  He enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter and loves University of Michigan Athletics, particularly football and basketball.

Coaching Experience: Coach O’Brien is entering his 10th season of coaching basketball.  He has coached 7th grade, 8th grade, 4 years at the freshmen level and 2 years at the J.V. level.  He has now been  an assistant to Coach Trent for the past two seasons.

Joe Seitz

Joe is a currently a Junior  student at the University of Michigan-Flint majoring in Accounting. He has a brother in college, a sister at Swartz Creek and a younger sister who is a Freshman at Powers Catholic!  He played varsity basketball under Coach Trent for two seasons at Swartz Creek where he was a second team all Metro league selection. Joe has been an ast coach at Creek and now one year at PCHS.   He enjoys watching Michigan football, Michigan basketball, and Tiger’s baseball as well as playing pick-up basketball and going up north with his family.

Joe was the 13th member of our 2010 Metro League championship team at Swartz Creek. He was a below average player that work tirelessly to turn himself into one of the top players in the Metro league his senior season Finishing 7th in scoring. Joe is one of if not THE hardest workers and best attitudes that I’ve ever coached. He is a huge asset to our staff. If every player in our program developed a ” Joe Seitz ” attitude and work ethic, we would never lose a game. – Coach Trent

Kipp Stewart

Personal: Kipp graduated from Davison H.S. in 1979 and Central Michigan University in 1984. Kipp is married to wife, Cara. They have three children, Lauren senior at CMU, Tyler (Powers Catholic grad ’11) and sophomore at MSU and David 7th grader at St. John Fenton. He is President at Stewart & Associates Insurance in Davison. Kipp enjoys spending time with his family, golf and following college athletics.

Coaching Experience: This is Kipp’s seventh year as a basketball Asst. or Head coach at Powers Catholic. Prior to Powers Catholic, Kipp has coached at St. John in Fenton at the Jr. High level, coaching both basketball and football. Kipp also had coached freshman boys basketball at Davison.

JV Head coach:  John Robinson …..bio coming soon

JV ast coach:  Mat Binko

Freshman Head coach: Don Eagleson

 Taylor Cole: I am currently a Junior at Alma College and majoring in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. At Alma College I am a member of the Alma College Volleyball Team and a member of  FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes). In High School I played Volleyball, Basketball, and Soccer and ran Track and Field for Alma High School. Sports have always been a passion of mine, growing up on my dads sidelines as the Alma College Head Football Coach, and as Coach Trent offered me this opportunity to create this website and follow The Powers Basketball Team excites me! If you have any questions feel free to email me, cole1tv@alma.edu  Go Powers!