Carbee takes over as Burnet golf coach

CAPION: Burnet football assistant head coach Shane Carbee (fourth from right) was one of several Bulldog coaches to make his way to Wimberley May 9 for the second annual Hill Country Coaches Association all-star game. The graduating seniors who played and their coaches who cheered them on are lineman Shane Ikonen (left), coaches Quentin Rhoder and Clayton Deaver, Josiah Coronado, Adler Goehring, Trevin Park, Carbee, Riley Howell, head coach Ben Speer and defensive coordinator Jordan Heusinkveld. Courtesy photo

The Burnet Consolidated Independent School District athletic department added another coach coach and promoted another for the 2026-27 school year.

Shane Carbee is the new golf head coach, taking over for Carter Carruthers, who resigned to become a teacher and coach at Liberty Hill Legacy Ranch.

Carbee, who is on the football staff under head coach Ben Speer, completed his first year at Burnet CISD during the 2025-26 school year.

“He’d been working with coach Carruthers to kind of get some of the behind the scenes stuff, so we’re able to hand that off to a really good candidate here and go ahead and get him kind of coached up in the process,” athletic director Grant Freeman said. “So I’ve gotten to know him — he serves as our assistant head football coach — it was shocking to me that he was not a head coach of one of our sports.”

Carbee, Freeman said, has many tools about him that make him an ideal head coach.

“He is somebody who has been tenured In coaching, he knows how to organize, he knows how to manage and our kids, boys and girls, love him,” the athletic director said. “He is one of our better teachers at the high school. He’s obviously one of our better coaches in football, and so it was a natural transition for him. He’s passionate about golf, he’s passionate about our kids, and so it was just a really easy transition.

Steven Villa is the new boys basketball assistant coach, who will be replacing Carruthers on head coach Juston Weldon’s staff.

Villa spent a year at Karnes City High School as an assistant coach in football, basketball and track and is a history and math teacher. He is a University of Texas at San Antonio graduate and has six years of experience.

In some ways, Villa is following the same trail that Weldon walked before he became the Bulldogs head coach. Weldon spent two years on former head coach Roy Kiser’s staff before taking over the program at the end of the 2024-25 school year. Before that, Weldon was the head coach at Blanco High School for six years.

CAPTION: Steven Villa served as an assistant football and basketball coach at Karnes City High School last year. Courtesy photo