Team Rants

Dennis Isbell is the former basketball coach at Coldspring-Oakhurst High School in Texas.

He was arrested today on charges of Indecency with a Child. There are currently only two cases facing Isbell, with the District Attorney saying “one for behavior that happened at the school in Coldspring and one for behavior that happened at his residence in Montgomery County.”

Isbell was placed on administrative leave back in November, after the allegations about the relationship surfaced.  Coach Isbell resigned his position around 2 weeks ago.

Dennis Isbell is 39 years old.

Chris Kindschi was a soccer coach at Beloit Memorial High School in Wisconsin for the past ten years.

He turned himself in this morning, was arrested and released pending a court date.  The arrest stems from an alleged affair between Kindschi and at least one teenage girl at the school. 

A police spokesman said “The police department has been working on this investigation since last fall when we received information and allegations that indicated that Kindschi had inappropriate sexual contact with a student or students”

Chris Kindschi is 32 years old.

Johnny Pride was for a short time in 2008, an athletic coach and a substitute campus supervisor at Canyon High School in Canyon Country, California.

It looks like they were fortunate that he was only there for a short time.

Pride has now been arrested and booked on suspicion of rape, lewd conduct with a minor, sodomy, oral copulation of a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The police allege that Pride got two 14 year old girls drunk and raped them.  Around the 27th of last month, Pride bought the girls alcohol, then text-ed them inviting them to his place, where the worst of the crimes occurred.

Johnny Pride is 26 years old.

Sarah Blessing was a swim coach at Bishop Ahr High School in Edison, New Jersey.

She has now been officially indicted on charges of sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, endangering the welfare of a child and witness tampering.  All of this is related to her relationship with a 17 year old girl at the school.

Blessing was arrested back in December, but only now have the indictments and charges become official.  She faces several years in prison if convicted.

Sarah Blessing is 27 years old.

Amanda “Mandy” Patrick was the cross country coach at Canyon High School in Texas.

She resigned without explanation on January 4th of this year, and the school would only say that she resigned for personal reasons.

Well come to find out she and another coach were responsible for 10 athletes at a state competition in Austin, Texas on November 15th when she was arrested for public intoxication.

Apparently the coach felt that it would be better for her team to resign than have her team deal with this problem. Kudos to a coach that puts the team first and herself last. Good luck in the future coach.

Amanda Patrick also was a special education teacher and certainly made a difference in kids lives.

Tim “Timothy” Dossey was a basketball coach at Arcata High School in California.

He was arrested yesterday on charges of Child Molestation and Sending Harmful Matter to Seduce a Minor.

The matter came to a the attention of police after school officials learned of the matter and alerted them.  As the local police investigated, they discovered some really incriminating text messages sent from the coach to a female student at Arcata High School.  They also found emails to the same effect.

While very few details have been released outside of that, it appears that there may have been a physical relationship or the charges would have been limited to the issue of sending harmful matter, i.e. text messages and emails.  Since child molestation charges have been made, it looks like investigators believe a physical relationship did occur.

Tim Dossey is 26 years old.

Shawn Baxley is a football, basketball, and track coach at Sherwood Christian Academy in Albany, Georgia.

He was arrested Monday and charged with one count of child molestation. No details have been released about the allegations, except that they involved an incident in 2008.

Shawn Baxley has been with Sherwood for three years.

James Mikesell is a soccer coach at Fairdale High School in Kentucky. He is also a Metro corrections officer that may find himself on the other side of the bars.

The school district has suspended the coach as a result of the sexual assault charges that have been filed against him.

Mikesell has been charged with sexual abuse, official misconduct and tampering with evidence.

The charges are based on the allegations that he sexually assaulted a female inmate on two occasions, with the second occasion being discovered by another guard on duty.

James Mikesell is 38 years old.

Jarime Baethge is the head basketball coach and a science teacher at Fort Davis High School in Texas.

He was arrested Wednesday morning following an investigation into allegations of an improper relationship with a female student of Fort Davis High.  Baethge has been charged with two felony counts of improper relationship between an educator and a student.

He had been placed on paid administrative leave several days ago, but the school was not offering any explanation for his suspension.  Now it is very clear.

The coach remains in jail under a 200,000 dollar bond.

Jarime Baethge is 28 years old.

Cassandra Shaffer was a basketball coach at Monroe Central High School in Parker City, Indiana.

She was arrested today as a result of allegations that she had carried on a sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl
from Monroe Central High School. Her lay coach contract had recently expired, so she has not been involved with students recently and will not be returning to the school.

She is currently being held in jail and faces charges of child molesting, child solicitation and child seduction.

Cassandra Shaffer is 19 years old.