Cody Schroeder is new Marble Falls boys soccer coach

CAPTION: Cody Schroeder is the new boys soccer head coach at Marble Falls Independent School District. With him saying yes to the position, he and wife Stacy return to a familiar area. Cody Schroeder was the head coach of the Fischer Canyon Lake Hawks. Courtesy photo

The Marble Falls Independent School District’s Board of Trustees approved the hire of Cody Schroeder as the new boys soccer head coach during a special meeting June 1.

Schroeder was the head coach of Eagle Mountain for three years after serving as the head coach of Fischer Canyon Lake from 2020-23. Eagle Mountain High is located in Fort Worth in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District.

Schroeder started his career at Justin Northwest in 1995 that included several playoff appearances before becoming the first boys soccer head coach at Denton Guyer in 2006 where he served for 15 years. Guyer won three consecutive district crowns from 2008-10 highlighted by a regional semifinal appearance in 2009. The Wildcats qualified for the playoffs in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2019 and won bi-district titles in 2013 and 2014.

Marble Falls athletic director Keri Timmerman said many qualities made Schroeder the pick.

“He’s a phenomenal teacher,” he said. “That’s always something that when you’re going to be in the classroom with our kids, being able to take someone to (MFISD Superintendent Dr. Jeff) Gasaway and (high school Principal Patrick) Henson that is going to make our classrooms better, going to make our students better. That’s always a huge, huge deal. Also just his experience and depth of experience. Coaching at the (Class) 5A-6A level and having experience at the 4A level and around us, coaching at Canyon Lake. He has a strong playing background. He played at (Southern Methodist University) for four years.”

SMU “is highly regarded as a perennial NCAA Division I powerhouse” in men’s soccer with a reputation for developing talent for the professional and internals ranks. A total of 212 men’s soccer programs are in NCAA Division I and only one of them are in Texas, including the University of Incarnate Word, the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley and Houston Christian University.

Schroeder also served as the Canyon Lake cross country head coach and will be on the Marble Falls cross country staff. Brenda Gonzalez has served as the cross country head coach for two years.

“He was just a commanding presence who’s going to find ways to make our kids better on the soccer pitch and then just be able to fit in with the culture here of understanding that we want our kids to be pushed physically, emotionally, spiritually and socially,” Timmerman said. “In our interview process, he was in line with what we want athletically for our head coaches, someone who’s constantly looking to improve themselves in our program.”

Eagle Mountain posted an 11-6-2 overall record, 6-4 in District 8-4A and a bi-district victory in 2026 and 3-12-4 overall and 3-5-2 in district play in 2025. Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD officially opened the school in 2024.

The Mustangs beat Canyon Lake 5-0 in Marble Falls’ first season back in Class 4A in 2023. Marble Falls has won three of the last four district titles and the one year the Mustang didn’t win it, in 2025, they finished second. They have captured four consecutive bi-district championships, won three area matches culminating with winning the Class 4A Division I Region IV title and advancing to the state tournament for the first time in school history in 2026.

Though the team had around 15 players graduate, starting goalie Jett Marcum is returning along with Jose Campos Garcia, Ismayl Ismaylov and Jostin Buezo Lopez, who are all seniors.

Rick Hoover was the head coach for 11 years and retired from coaching in 2024. His top assistant, Ryan Craven, took as head coach in 2025 and 2026 and stepped down at the end of the season to be closer to his family in Liberty Hill.

“We were just waiting to see who really felt like this was the place that they wanted to be,” Timmerman said. “And I think especially where we’re at locationally and because of our history and our community, we really wanted someone that this is where they want to be, it’s not a pass through, it’s not somebody that is looking for that next job, someone who says ‘this is a community that I believe we can win at. This is a place where I want my wife and my family to be a part of,’ so I think that was the biggest thing for us. We looked at what coach Hoover had done and what coach Craven had done and said, ‘Where do we go next?’ I think that’s one of the things about programs is that they need different things at different times. I think that coach Hoover did a phenomenal job of building the program and taking it to places that it hadn’t been years before, and then coach Craven took it further. And then now it’s the question of ‘what can coach Schroeder do (with) where we’re at now and build on that?'”