on Facebook<\/a>, describing Jenkins as the community\u2019s leader and his wife as one of the athletic program\u2019s \u201cbiggest and most unconditional supporters.\u201d<\/p>\nArticle continues below this ad<\/p>\n
\u201cCoaches are supposed to live forever,\u201d the post said. \u201cThey\u2019re supposed to be there year after year \u2014 standing on that sideline, walking through the field house, coaching our kids, pushing them, believing in them and loving this community right alongside us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeremy and Brandy Jenkins have three sons: Tyson, Gage and Jake. The booster club said the community\u2019s immediate focus would be supporting the boys and their family.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, football doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWins don\u2019t matter. None of it does. What matters is surrounding these boys with the same kind of love and support their family has given to so many of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hudgins described Jenkins as someone who \u201clived and breathed all things Brahma Family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe watched film non-stop, coached up our kids in the most loving way, truly wanted what was best for ALL kids, challenged us to see things through a different lens, loved his fellow coaches, and was an \u2018all in\u2019 kind of man,\u201d Hudgins wrote.<\/p>\n
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Jenkins was preparing to begin his third season leading the East Bernard football program. He guided the Brahmas to a 20-7 record over his first two seasons, including a run to the Class 3A Division II state semifinals in 2025. East Bernard began last season with three consecutive losses before winning 10 of its next 11 games. The Brahmas defeated Poth, Lexington and previously unbeaten Tidehaven during the playoffs before falling to eventual state champion Newton in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
East Bernard is scheduled to open the season Friday, Aug. 28, at home against Sweeny.<\/p>\n
Jenkins was hired by East Bernard in February 2024 after two seasons as athletic director and head football coach at Harmony High School in East Texas. He led Harmony to the Class 3A Division II state semifinals in 2022 and a 10-3 record the following season.<\/p>\n
Jenkins previously served as head coach at Mount Enterprise in 2019 and Tenaha in 2020 and 2021. He compiled a 67-24 record across seven seasons as a head coach.<\/p>\n
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A Cayuga High School and UT Tyler graduate, Jenkins had worked in education for more than two decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will show up,\u201d the booster club statement said. \u201cWe will wrap our arms around these boys, their family, our coaches and our athletes. And we will carry one another through the days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Bernard football coach Jeremy Jenkins and his wife Brandy, who were killed in a car crash Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-408701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}