Coaches
Kenny Pailes (kenny.pailes@gmail.com) Head Coach
844-0037
Kenny Pailes is the head coach of the Westwood lacrosse program. He graduated from Westwood in 1994, and played lacrosse throughout high school, beginning just 2 years after the program’s inception. He started playing club soccer at age 5, and continues to do so in his spare time. Coach Pailes is a HazMat, emergency response and homeland security consultant for military units, government agencies and private industrial facilities. For the decade prior to this job, he was a firefighter/paramedic and helped establish and manage the Capital Area Regional HazMat and WMD Strike Team. He serves on the local HazMat Advisory Board, Local Emergency Planning Commission and other committees and panels. Coach Pailes met his girlfriend Heather while both were students at Westwood and she was on the swim team; they continue a debate they began in Mrs. Moore’s AP English IV class regarding the meaning of Waiting for Godot. In their spare time, Coach Pailes and Heather volunteer with the LCRA’s Colorado River Watch Network and Austin’s Habitat for Humanity, and Coach Pailes serves as a peer counselor on the Central Texas Critical Incident Stress Management Team, assisting firefighters and paramedics to manage line-of-duty stress. Coach Pailes feels honored and blessed to coach in the community where he was raised.
Mike Nuhn (mike.nuhn@att.net) JV Head Coach
699-0226
Mike Nuhn played lacrosse for Westwood High School and graduated in 2000. Coach Nuhn continued playing intercollegiate lacrosse for Texas Tech, where he received a dual BBA in marketing and management in 2005. Coach Nuhn returned to central Texas to pursue a career in banking; he is a project analyst for FirstData, a bank software company. Coach Nuhn lives in Austin.
Jamie Booth (james.booth@att.net) Offensive Coordinator
Jamie Booth attended William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach, NY. He went to the University of Massachusetts (UMass), in Amherst, where he graduated in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Management. Coach Booth is a special education teacher for the Pflugerville Independent School District. He and his wife Michelle live in Pflugerville with their 3 children: JR, Kaylee and Kyle. Coach Booth is looking forward to his first year as a Westwood High School lacrosse coach.
Roger Ingram (ringram@strasburger.net) Defensive Co-Coordinator
Roger Ingram was born in Austin, but attended high school in Palmyra, NY, where he played football, golf, baseball and basketball. His family moved to Temple, Texas, his junior year, where he played football; he returned to Upstate New York for his senior high school year at “Pal-Mac” before attending Alfred University, in Alfred, NY, to play football. Coach Ingram says the best thing that happened to him at Alfred was being cut from the football team before his sophomore year, which allowed him to walk onto the university’s DIII lacrosse team, where he played defense for 3 years. After graduating with a B.S. in ceramic engineering, Coach Ingram returned to Texas to marry his wife Sharon. Coach Ingram has played lacrosse on city teams in Austin and San Antonio and has coached teams for Town & Country, Cedar Park High School and Westwood. Coach Ingram has also served on the Friends of Central Texas Lacrosse Board and the T&C Lacrosse Board. Coach Ingram is the in-house attorney for Strasburger Enterprises, Inc. He and Sharon have three children: Pierce, Lance and Brooke.
Pat Jones (pdjones512@gmail.com) Defensive Co-Coordinator
789-8014
Pat Jones grew up and went to high school in Westlake, where he played lacrosse and ran cross country. Coach Jones played club lacrosse for The Ohio State University, where he graduated in 2006 with a double major in finance and real estate and a minor in psychology. After graduating from OSU, he returned to Texas to pursue a career in commercial real estate management, teaching social dynamics, and of course, coaching lacrosse. Coach Jones and his dog Cody live in Austin.
Frank Llamo (frank.llamo@gmail.com) JV Assistant Coach
659-9597
Frank Llamo grew up in Houston, but started high school at the Aquinas Institute in Rochester, NY, where his family was temporarily relocated. After moving back to Texas, Coach Llamo finished his junior and senior years at St. Thomas High School in Houston, where he helped start the school’s lacrosse program. In addition to lacrosse, Coach Llamo played soccer, ran track and played in the high school band. He continued his passion for lacrosse, playing intercollegiate ball for Texas A&M University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1996. Afterwards, he attended Houston Baptist University, where he majored in business and computer science, graduating in 1998. He tried to start a lacrosse program at HBU, but lacking supplies, started a men’s lacrosse club instead, which competed in the Gulf Coast Lacrosse Association. Coach Llamo is a software engineer for Tokoni, a social media start-up. He and his wife Elisabeth live in Austin.
Patrick Estes (patrickestes@me.com) JV Assistant Coach
Patrick Estes grew up in Crofton, Maryland and played high school lacrosse for Arundel High in Anne Arundel County. He was a three year varsity player, and Washington Post and Capital All-County player. Patrick started at close defense for Essex (Baltimore, MD) on the 2009 team which reached the Final Four.
Marc Rainey (darkmatter45@gmail.com) Strength and Conditioning Coach
Marc Rainey is the strength and conditioning coach. He went to Bastrop High School after the Air Force transferred his family to central Texas. While in Bastrop, he played football, soccer and ran track. Coach Rainey attended West Point for one year, where he played football and recreational lacrosse; he attended Texas State University for another year, playing football. He is currently pursuing his National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification. Coach Rainey is a computer systems analyst for the Texas General Land Office. He lives in Austin with his wife Jennifer and daughter Faith.