STEPHENVILLE — Just a few months after Stephenville’s Class 3A DI state football championship in 2012, a young coach, Jeremiah Butchee, brought his family to town looking for work. 

He found it as an assistant coach under former SHS coach Joe Gillespie. Twelve years later he has remained on staff through the tenures of Greg Windor and now, Sterling Doty with no plans of ever leaving.

After considerable prayer, Jeremiah and his wife, Julie, wanted the decision to come to SHS be an easy one and they wanted the decision to stay to be just as simple. 

Both prayers were answered. 

The couple has since raised their three sons, Mason, Jack and Hudson in Stephenville, all three have been standout football players and all three have made considerable contributions to a highly successful 12-year run for the SHS program.