coaches

 

Ben Stevenson

Head Coach

Coach Stevenson graduated from Sparkman High School in 2007, lettering in football and baseball. Coach Stevo is entering his second year in the head coaching role for the Senators in the 2023-24 season. He graduated from the University of North Alabama in 2012. While attending UNA, he served as the baseball manager of the UNA baseball program for 4 years. Coach Stevenson started working at Sparkman in 2012 and coached football and baseball for 5 years before making the switch to baseball only in 2018. In his tenure with the Sparkman baseball team, he has served as both the freshman and JV head coach and a varsity assistant.


Coach Stevenson has a BS in Secondary Education Social Science from the University of North Alabama, and an M.Ed in Instructional Leadership from the University of West Alabama.

 

Coach Stevenson is married to Linzee Crunk Stevenson of Klllen, AL.  They have a son, Billy Mac(7), and a daughter Annie Gayle(2).


 

Mike Good

Pitching Coach

Coach Good begins his 8th year as a varsity assistant at Sparkman.  Prior to joining the Senator baseball program, Mike spent 23 years coaching at Madison Academy serving the last 14 years as the Mustangs Head Varsity Coach and overall Program Director.  Mike produced an overall record of 406-205 (66% win percentage) during his tenure which included four (4) – Class 3A State Championships (2009, 2014, 2015 & 2016).  Coach Good’s teams were routinely ranked among the best in Class 3A by the Alabama Sports Writer’s Association (ASWA).  In recognition of the program's overall success and Coach Good’s achievements, the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association honored Mike with the 2014 “Sammy Dunn Memorial Award,” given to only one high school coach each year for exhibiting a high degree of team excellence at the high school level.

Under Mike's tutelage, Mustang players established a long tradition of receiving post-season honors. Eighteen (18) student athletes were named 1st Team All State by the ASWA.  Twenty-one (21) student athletes were named ASWA 2nd Team or All-State Honorable Mention; and Sixty-nine (69) student athletes were distinguished by Al.com or the Huntsville Times as 1st Team All-Region or All-Metro selections.

Coach Good attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNC-W) where he was a member of their NAIA World Series team of 1975. Mike was also a member of UNC-W's first NCAA Division 1 baseball team in 1977.  Mike was married for 33 years to the former Peggy Lyons (deceased). Mike and Peggy raised two children, Logan and Kyle, both residents of Nashville, TN. Mike also has three grandchildren; Maddox, Liam and Kenadee.  Mike resides in Madison, AL with his wife Wendy.


 

Chuck Rice

Varsity Assistant Coach

Infield Coach


Coach Rice begins his 9th season with the Senators where he will assist with the Freshman, JV, and Varsity teams. His primary duties will be working with the program's infielders, but also assuming game-day duties for the Varsity team.

Coach Rice graduated from Twinsburg High School in Twinsburg, OH in 2008, where he was a 2-year starter and earned All-Conference honors as an infielder.  Coach Rice spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Sparkman Middle School.

Coach Rice is married to Lauren McCaghren Rice of Madison, AL. They have a daughter, Anna Kate, who was born in November 2023.



Will Sipes

Hitting Coach


He will be working with hitters and infielders.

 

Coach Sipes enters his second year of coaching at Sparkman High. He graduated from Sparkman in 2015, lettering in baseball as a 3 year starter on varsity. He was selected to the All-State Team as a infielder his junior and senior year helping to lead the Senators to two final four appearances and a state championship game. 

 

Coach Sipes went on to play college baseball at Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and then at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama. At both stops he helped lead his teams to appearances in the JUCO state tournament.





   



Braden Synder

Head JV Coach


Coach Snyder went to Buckhorn High School and graduated in 2012, lettering in football and baseball. He continued his education at Alabama A&M University, earning a B.S. degree in Physical Education and playing baseball as a pitcher.  


Coach Snyder is entering his first year at Sparkman in the 2024-25 season as the head JV baseball coach. He has previously coached baseball in Huntsville for various schools since 2020.


Coach Snyder is married to Kaitlyn Lyle and has a daughter, Brynlee, who was born in May of 2024.






   



Davis Smallwood

Head Freshman Coach


Coach Smallwood enters his first year with the Sparkman Senators as the head 9th-grade coach. He graduated from Hartselle High School in 2014, graduated from the University of Alabama with his first undergraduate degree in 2020, and then graduated from Athens State University with his history and secondary education degree in 2024. He comes to us from East Limestone High School where he spent a year and a half in both the middle and high school. He also coaches football for Sparkman during the fall season.






   



Tristan McGuff

Manager