Houston Christian University Men's Football

Brady Schlesman joined the HCU Women’s Soccer program as Associate Head Coach in the spring of 2026. He arrives after serving the previous two seasons as the Associate Head Coach at fellow Southland Conference member, Nicholls State University.   Schlesman played a pivotal role in rejuvenating Nicholls, guiding the team to the most conference points since 2017 and earning results in half of their conference games in 2025. He helped guide the program to the longest undefeated streak in conference play in school history. They also scored the most goals in a season since 2016 and had their most wins since 2017.   As the recruiting coordinator his entire tenure at Nicholls, seven of his freshmen combined for 78 starts in 2025. All incoming players combined for 9,518 minutes for the season.   Schlesman previously served as both the assistant and interim head coach at Averett University in the 2023 season. Before Averett, he served as an analytics assistant for the women's soccer program at Virginia Tech during the 2022 season.   A native of Richmond, Virginia, playing for the Richmond Kickers academy system, Schlesman graduated from Virginia Tech in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications (sports media and analytics).  

Hinshaw, who works with the defensive front for the Huskies and helped defensive end Josh Jones rank among the top five in the Southland Conference with 5.5 sacks in 2014. He was the defensive coordinator at Lamar in 2010, after one season director of operations at Duke. He served as an assistant coach under Ken Hatfield for 23 years at Air Force (1983), Arkansas (1984-89), Clemson (1990-93) and Rice (1994-2005) with a combined record of 138-101-3, 10 bowl appearances and four conference championships.   While coaching the defensive backs at Rice in 11 of his 12 seasons, Hinshaw saw six players earn all-conference honors seven times. In 1990, the Clemson defense ranked first in the country in total defense and outside linebacker Levon Kirkland was a finalist for the Butkus Award and the following season, the Tigers ranked fourth in total defense and Kirkland earned All-America accolades. During four of his six years at Arkansas, the Razorbacks ranked among the top 20 in total defense.   Hinshaw earned a bachelors degree in health and physical education from Appalachian State in 1972 and was a graduate assistant for the Mountaineers while earning his Masters degree in physical education in 1974. He began his coaching career at Watauga High School in Boone, North Carolina, then moved to Georgia were he was an assistant coach at Newton County High School (1975-77) and Newnan High School (1978). Hinshaw moved to Alabama and was the secondary coach for one year, then the defensive coordinator for three years at the University of West Alabama.   Hinshaw and his wife, Lynn, have three daughters, Beth, Lindsey and Jamie, and two sons-in-law, Ryan and Dane. Roger and Lynn also have four grandchildren: Ansley, Caleb, Riley and Reese.      Roger Hinshaw

Aaron Winchester was named running backs coach and camps coordinator in January 2023.   Winchester joins the Huskies' staff after one season as the offensive graduate assistant at the University of South Florida. Prior to USF, he was the tight ends coach and video coordinator at Central Connecticut State and began his career as an assistant football and basketball coach at Mount Pisgah Christian School.   A native of Lawrenceville, Georgia, and a standout at Mount Pisgah, Winchester went on to play quarterback at Georgia State, before finishing his career at CCSU. He earned a bachelor of arts in interdisciplinary studies from Georgia State, then a Master of Science in technology management from CCSU.

David Shuster became the head men’s and women’s golf coach at HCU in June 2007, resurrecting the great Huskies golf tradition, which had been discontinued in the late 1980s. In 2023, he was named Director of Golf at HCU and remained head coach of the men's golf program.   Now entering his 18th season, Shuster has seen the two programs combine for 28 tournament victories, eight conference championships, three NCAA Championship appearances and an individual NCAA appearance for Preston Stanley in 2014. Shuster was named Great West Conference Coach of the Year five times, once for the men in 2009 and four times for the women from 2010 to 2013. He added America Sky Coach of the Year for the men in 2013 and has twice been named Southland Conference Coach of the Year for the women in 2017 and 2018. Shuster has seen his student-athletes excel on the course, and in the classroom, throughout his career. He has coached 63 all-conference selections, including three SLC Student-Athlete of the Year honorees and 27 academic all-SLC honorees. In 2023-24, the HCU men recorded their best finish since 2020-21 with a fourth-place finish at the SLC Championships. Senior Ben Caton earned all-conference and was named SLC Student-Athlete of the Year for the Huskies. The year before, Caton was an academic all-conference selection. On the women's side in 2022-23, Shuster guided Elise Parel and Lou Rousselot to all-conference honors with Parel and Jackie Nguyen earning academic all-SLC recognition as the Huskies placed third at the SLC Championships. During the shortened 2019-20 season, the women claimed the Huntsville Toyota Bearkat Invitational title and junior Sara Zrnikova was named the Southland Conference Student-Athlete of the Year, while senior Alisa Chong and sophomores Tiffany Nguyen and Grace Cassity joined her on the All-Academic Team. Four women were named WGCA All-Amercian Scholars. On the men’s side, senior Lucas Coapman was named to the Southland All-Academic Team, while senior Nicko Martinez and sophomore Mathew Chairuangdej were named GCAA Early Wave Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholars. Both programs earned NCAA APR Public Recognition Awards.   The women won twice during the 2018-19 season and finished third at the Southland Conference Championship. Seniors Kaity Cummings and Lexi Brooks, along with Chong, were named to the Southland All-Conference Teams. Cummings, Brooks and Zrnikova made the All-Academic Team and five were named WGCA All-America Scholars. The men finished eighth at the conference championship and Martinez was a GCAA All-America Scholar.   Cummings won the individual title in leading the women to their second-straight Southland Conference Championship and automatic berth to the NCAA Championships in 2018. Cummings, Brooks and Zrnikova made the all-conference team and Cummings, Brooks and Chong were named to the All-Academic Team and four were named WGCA All-America Scholars. The men took fifth at the Southland Conference Championship and senior Val Almendarez made the Southland All-Academic Team and was a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar.   The women claimed their first Southland Conference Championship and the first NCAA appearance in program history in 2017. Brooks was the individual champion and Southland Women’s Golf Student-Athlete of the Year. She was joined on the all-conference team by Cummings. Five were named WGCA All-America Scholars. The men finished sixth at the conference championship, with Almendarez finishing as the individual runner-up after a six-hole playoff. Almendarez and junior Carlos Trevino earned all-conference honors and Almendarez was a GCAA All-America Scholar. In 2015-16, the women’s team finished in the top five in eight of their tournaments which included a third place finish at the Southland Conference Championship. Brooks and Cummings were both named second team All-SLC, while Giorgia Carletti received honorable mention.  In 2014-15, the HCU women posted a third place finish at the Southland Conference Championship, the program’s second season as a member of the conference. Carletti and Rachel Mulkey were each named second-team All-SLC, while Stanley was named to the second team on the men’s side. The 2013-14 season marked HCU’s first year of Southland competition. Shuster guided Stanley, a first team All-SLC honoree, to an individual bid to the NCAA Championships. Mulkey earned second team all-conference honors for the women, as both teams placed seventh at the SLC Championship. The 2012-13 season was a banner year for both the men’s and women’s programs, as Shuster was awarded each program’s respective conference Coach of the Year in both the America Sky Conference and Great West Conference. The men captured the ASC championship, earning an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, the first by any HCU program since returning to Division I competition. Stanley as the individual runner-up to earn first team all-conference honors, while Brandon Wilhide was named to the second team. In 2012-13, the women claimed their fourth-straight GWC Championship in the final year of the league, with Kelsey Lou-Hing claiming her second GWC Championship individual title. Lou-Hing was joined on the all-conference first team by Katy Kile and Mulkey. Katie Paxton and Jenny Kang earned second team honors. The men also had a stellar season in 2011-12 with the emergence of freshmen Andy Ariens, Jeffrey Merrell, Stanley and Wilhide, who were the sixth-ranked freshman class nationally, according to Golfstat. The foursome led the Huskies to a runner-up finish at the ASC Championship. In the 2010-11, Shuster coached the women to their second title in as many years. Lou-Hing captured individual medalist honors at the GWC Championship, Balbina Guajardo was named Player of the Year and Jessica Ngui claimed Newcomer of the Year honors. Guajardo, Lou-Hing, Ngui and Paige Gibson, all earned first team all-conference honors, while Kang, Gaia Olcese and Alexandra Hopson earned second team recognition. During the 2009-10 season, the women captured the first title since the program was brought back. Olcese won the individual title and league Player of the Year honors, while Guajardo was Newcomer of the Year. Gibson and Lee joined Olcese as first team all-conference honorees, while Guajardo made the second team. The men’s program transitioned to the America Sky and finished third at the league tournament in 2010, with five all-conference honorees, and 10th in 2011. During the 2008-09 season, Shuster led both programs in their first season of Great West play. The men won the first-ever GWC championship and the women recorded a runner-up finish. Shuster produced five All-GWC honorees on the men’s side and four on the women’s side in the 2009-10 season. In addition to those, the women’s team produced two members of the NGCA All-American Scholar Team. A native of Fort Stockton, Texas, Shuster was an all-state golfer in high school before attending Temple Junior College on a golf scholarship. He finished his collegiate career at Angelo State University. He spent twenty-four years as a high school coach working with multiple sports. His teams claimed state championships in football and golf. His golf teams and players won multiple district and region championships, as well as having numerous regional and state qualifiers. In his final year at Aledo High School in 2007, his boys’ team won the state title and the girl’s finished third in only their second-ever appearance at the state tournament. Those finishes landed him NTGCAA Coach of the Year honors. In addition to his coaching and teaching, Shuster also served as the vice president in a family corporation in Fort Stockton. He also served as the director of the recreation department for the City of Fort Stockton, overseeing the operation of 15 different sporting activities for several summers. Shuster and his wife, Mona Kliesing Shuster, reside in Houston.

Roger Hinshaw, who has been with the HCU football program since its beginning in 2012, serves as the program’s linebackers coach. He heavily recruited the Houston area as an assistant at Rice and Lamar and has helped build a legacy of standout linebackers for the Huskies.   Hinshaw coached one of the nation’s best linebackers from 2021-23 in Rodney Dansby. Dansby averaged 11 tackles per game across three seasons, earning third team all-America honors and sophomore all-America honors in 2022 and freshman all-America laurels in 2021. Additionally, Dansby earned all-Southland Conference recognition each year. HCU boasted one of the most prolific linebacker duos in the nation in 2019, with Brennan Young leading the Southland Conference and ranking fifth nationally in tackles per game to earn HERO Sports Sophomore All-America honors, while junior Caleb Johnson ranked second in the league and 10th nationally in tackles per game. Young was also an academic all-conference selection.   In 2018, Langston Tunson earned all-conference honors, leading the Southland Conference and ranking fourth nationally with 12.2 tackles per game, while Caleb Johnson also recorded more than 100 tackles on the season. Tunson also made the Southland All-Academic Team.   Hinshaw previously worked with the defensive ends and helped Josh Jones rank among the top five in the Southland Conference with 5.5 sacks in 2014. He was the defensive coordinator at Lamar in 2010, after one season director of operations at Duke. He served as an assistant coach under Ken Hatfield for 23 years at Air Force (1983), Arkansas (1984-89), Clemson (1990-93) and Rice (1994-2005) with a combined record of 138-101-3, 10 bowl appearances and four conference championships.   While coaching the defensive backs at Rice in 11 of his 12 seasons, Hinshaw saw six players earn all-conference honors seven times. In 1990, the Clemson defense ranked first in the country in total defense and outside linebacker Levon Kirkland was a finalist for the Butkus Award and the following season, the Tigers ranked fourth in total defense and Kirkland earned All-America accolades. During four of his six years at Arkansas, the Razorbacks ranked among the top 20 in total defense.   Hinshaw earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Appalachian State in 1972 and was a graduate assistant for the Mountaineers until earning his Master’s degree in physical education in 1974. He began his coaching career at Watauga High School in Boone, North Carolina, then moved to Georgia were he was an assistant coach at Newton County High School (1975-77) and Newnan High School (1978). Hinshaw moved to Alabama and was the secondary coach for one year, then the defensive coordinator for three years at the University of West Alabama.   Hinshaw and his wife, Lynn, have three daughters, Beth, Lindsey and Jamie, and two sons-in-law, Ryan and Dane. Roger and Lynn also have five grandchildren: Ansley, Caleb, Riley, Reese and Jaxon.