Marble Falls ISD approves coaching hires

CAPTION: New Marble Falls defensive coordinator Taylor Wolfe (left) chats with Llano defensive coordinator Michael McLeod. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro

Several new coaches were approved for hire by the Marble Falls Independent School District’s Board of Trustees May 19.

They are defensive coordinator Taylor Wolfe, who will also be an assistant track coach, Cody Salyers as an assistant football and baseball coach, Clay Causey an an assistant football and track coach, and Marc Gutierrez as a middle school football, basketball and track coach.

Athletic director and football head coach Keri Timmerman made the recommendations.

Wolfe served as the defensive coordinator and assistant powerlifting coach at China Spring during his 15 years as a coach. He has worked at Crowley, Cedar Hill, Cedar Ridge and Magnolia West. After graduating from Richardson J.J. Pearce High School, he played football at Southwestern College. Wolfe will coach the Mustangs’ inside linebackers.

“Incredible references and experience,” Timmerman said. “High level coordinator at Cedar Hill and Crowley, and then also at China Spring and just the fact that he is excited about being at Marble Falls for his family, and for his future and what we bring to him as well. So that’s one of the biggest things is just having someone that really wants to be here and be a part of it with their family and invest in our community. But he just has high-level coaching experience, and he fits what I want in a coordinator at this level, which is someone who is going to connect with kids, someone that’s going to have a sound scheme that we’re going to find a way to stop the run and not get beat on explosive plays. And he has a history of being able to play in multiple defenses for what we need that fits our kids.”

Salyers, an Abilene High and Abilene Christian University graduate, served as the Peaster High School baseball head coach for the last five years. Peaster went 23-10 in 2025 and won the District 8-3A title. The Greyhounds lost in the second round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs to Tuscola Jim Ned. Son Hudson, who is a rising junior, was named district co-Most Valuable Player.

Before that, the elder Salyers was the baseball head coach at Abilene Cooper High School for six years and served as an associate Major League Baseball scout with the Milwaukee Brewers and the San Diego Padres.

He also was the head coach at Greenville High School from 2009-15 and The Colony High School from 2006-08. He and Timmerman worked together when their careers began and both families have a strong friendship and bonds.

“He’s a high-level coach,” the Mustangs athletic director said. “He is a just an excellent coach. He is one of the top football coaches. I know he’ll be helping with our secondary, but he also is a high level baseball coach. He played in the minor leagues and then played in college at ACU and just brings an incredible wealth of knowledge to our baseball program and adds a lot of depth to our football program as well. He’s just a guy that is great with kids, he’s just easy to get along with, the kids love him. And so I’m really excited about what his family brings to our program and having worked with him and the experience I have with him, and what he brings to all of our programs. I think he’s one of those guys who is just going to fit in easy and be an asset to everybody.”

Timmerman coached Causey at South Garland High School.

“Back then he was a kid that just understood sports,” he said. “He was a baseball and football kid and you could tell he was going to coach. He didn’t know that at the time, but I could just tell he had it in him. He loved stats. He loves breaking down offense and defense and understanding what they’re doing, and the stat side of baseball and coaching baseball. When he got out of college at Texas State, he had remained close with our family. He was kind of like a son and his family is real close with ours. He kept trying to figure out what he was going to do and felt like God was calling him to be a coach. I hired him, got him certified and hired him at Lake Worth as a middle school assistant and moved him up to the varsity. And he just flourished.”

When Timmerman took a job at Colleyville Heritage, Causey joined Alan Metzel’s staff at Gilmer High School when the Buckeyes had three state championship appearances and won the 2023 Class 4A Division II state title.

“He was ready to come back with me, and we had an opportunity to make that happen,” Timmerman said. “I’m really excited about him getting to coach our wide receivers and call our freshman offense. He’s going to be a great asset, too, just because he brings another perspective offensively from a state-championship level program.”

Gutierrez finished his second year at China Spring where he was an eighth-grade U.S. history teacher, junior varsity basketball coach and the varsity outside wide receivers coach. A graduate of Clifton High School, he played football at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor where he won a national title.

“We had the opportunity to get him and his wife (Corinne) in,” Timmerman said, noting she is a school nurse. “He’s just a great young coach, who has a great head on his shoulders. Lots of opportunity for him to grow in our system and benefit our kids. He brings a lot of strength to our junior high program we already have. We have some coaches there that have some age and wisdom. And then he brings a little youth and exuberance, and I think that’s going to be great for our boys program down there.”

Timmerman said he is close on making a recommendation for an offensive coordinator, boys head soccer coach, and middle school boys athletic coordinator and athletic trainer.

Former offensive coordinator Logan Simmons is the new athletic director and football head coach at Dawson High School. Ryan Craven resigned as boys soccer head coach and defensive coordinator to become an assistant coach at Liberty Hill High School. Mendy Wyatt resigned as an athletic trainer to move closer to family.

CAPTION: Marc and Corinne Gutierrez are joining the Marble Falls Independent School District staff. Courtesy photo