Coach Smith enters his 10th season as a Wolf, and 9th as the head coach of the program. Coach Smith grew up in Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island where he was an “All Everything” Baseball and football player, after high school he took his talents to Washington State University (Go Cougs!). The Wolves under coach Smith have reached “State” 4 straight years, in each of those years the Wolves have advanced to the regional championship. The Wolves have won BACK, TO BACK, TO BACK Wesco/Kingco Titles (2022, 2023, 2024). In 2023 under his leadership the Wolves won the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! The 1st in school history, he was also named NFHS Washington State Coach of the year.

Coach Smith keys to success are his amazing staff of coaches and community support he has built around the best facility in the state. “The packed house on cold spring nights is something pretty special”, I have been fortunate to have had some pretty good mentors as well (Bryan McNaghten, and Chris Taminen “Tambo”). There have been a lot of folks from parents to great boosters who have helped along way.

My wife Kristine gets the biggest kudos, she supports win or lose and is our biggest fan. Coach Smith enjoys time off in Mexico with his wife Kristine, running the gym they own “FM Sports” and taking care of their 7 dogs, several which are rescues (T.J. Cricket, Pixie, Kimura, Tug, Abbott and Costello).

Steve Simpson joins the Varsity coaching staff this year.   Steve spent 10+ years coaching select baseball for the Eastlake Tigers and ran the Eastlake High School winter workouts during those years.  Steve has coached kids from 10 years up to 18, only taking a few years off to watch his son play college baseball.

Before coaching, Steve played for 2 years at Lassen Community College in Susanville, CA, and then transferred to the University of Southern Alabama, where his team made it all the way to a final game against Wichita State, just one game short of Omaha.  Welcome to the staff, Steve!
 

Coach Hernandez enters the 2024 season as his 23rd year of coaching. After coaching in the Eastlake Little League and select teams for 19 years, Dave joined the Eastlake High School Wolves Baseball program as the C-Team Head Coach in 2016.  After two seasons, he decided to step away from coaching.  Then in 2022, Coach Smith reached out to see if Dave would consider coming back as the Assistant Coach for the JV team.  Coming onboard, Dave then became the Head JV Coach in 2023.  Benefitting from the large talent pool that Eastlake has, Coach Hernandez has a .620 winning percentage at Eastlake.

On the personal side, Dave's biggest supporter is his wife of 32 years, Amy.  Dave & Amy have three children who all attended Eastlake.  The Hernandez house is definitely a WSPS home.