Athletic Academy

Ahmad Ajami, Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Parish Assistant Athletic Director, is thrilled to lead the Basketball Skills sessions for the Parish Extend Athletic Academy. Coach Ajami’s coaching experience began in 1997, when he started working as the Athletic Director as well as Head Basketball and Assistant Football Coach at All Saints Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2006, Coach Ajami made the jump to the National Basketball Association (NBA) as an assistant video scout with the Los Angeles Clippers. After one year, he moved on to the Orlando Magic as an assistant coach under Stan Van Gundy for five seasons. While in Orlando, Coach Ajami’s highlights included: making the playoffs five straight years; two Eastern Conference Finals; a trip to the NBA Finals in 2009 where they were defeated in five games by a Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers team; and coaching NBA greats Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Kevin Garnett in the 2010 NBA All-Star Game.

In 2012, Coach Ajami joined the Texas Legends (Dallas Mavericks Developmental Team) as the lead assistant coach for former Dallas Mavericks’ player Eddie Najera. He holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Texas Christian University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

Jarrett Moffitt grew up in western NY state where lacrosse is a very popular sport. Coach Moffitt was named a High School All-American after finishing his career as Corning West High School’s all-time leading scorer. He spent two seasons playing Division 1 lacrosse at Hobart College before an ankle injury derailed his junior season. After transferring to Division 3 Alfred University for his senior season, he was named second team All-Empire 8 after scoring 26 goals and adding seven assists. He has eight years of NCAA coaching experience. Over the last six years in Texas, Coach Moffitt has spent time with programs in Flower Mound, Prosper, The Greenhill School and most recently as the Varsity Head Coach for McKinney Lacrosse Club. In that time he has won a THSLL state championship and has won two DFWL city championships.

Coach Paris Townsend was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When developing her love for competitive softball, her family dedicated their time and energy to get her in a position to reach her dreams. She went to Holland Hall Preparatory School, where she won six SPC championships in both softball and basketball. In high school, she received honorable mentions including two-time offensive player of the year, three-time All-SPC player in both basketball and softball, four-time team captain and lead team in scoring and rebounding for three years. After high school, she earned a scholarship at The University of Oklahoma for softball, where she won two National Championships and four Big XII Championships. She graduated with a degree in Health and Exercise Science. In 2020, she moved to Dallas and started her own business, The All In Athlete, with her twin sister, Jules Townsend, and partner Durron Neal, both Oklahoma alum athletes. They work with young athletes to give them the knowledge and instruction to reach their dreams. Coach Townsend loves using her own experience, knowledge, and passion for the game to mentor the next generation. She says her goal in helping her athletes is to make them elite students of the game, to assist in college recruiting and to help them ultimately become strong, confident women outside of sports.

JT D’Emidio started his soccer career playing for Andromeda U13 and U14 Pre-Academy Teams where he served as Team Captain from 2013-2015. In 2015, he traveled with FC Dallas to Oakham, England for the Academy Festival. After his time with FC Dallas, he played with the Dallas Texans from 2015-2018. In 2018, he started playing for the Air Force Men’s Soccer team, where he was named Air Force Men’s Soccer Rookie of the Year (2018) and was selected for the WAC All-Freshman Team (2018).

Kevin Rock is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and played on multiple youth national teams and select travel teams. Before Parish he served as the Middle School Soccer Coach for Alapattah Middle School in Miami and the Middle and Elementary Soccer Coach at Fellowship Christian Academy in Dallas. He is currently the Middle School coach at Parish and teaches 7th grade science. Since coming to Parish Coach Rock’s Middle School teams have won multiple Championships since their first Championship win in 2016.

Edgar Sanchez is a native of Mexico and grew up playing on multiple select club teams. Before Parish he served as the coach to Irving United U17 girls’ team and Hurst United Select team U11 and U15 boys’ teams. During his time at Parish, Coach Sanchez has worked with both the boys and girls Middle School soccer teams. He has also been heavily involved with the PARISHkicks program in coaching skills classes and clinics for 3rd through 8th grade students.

Scout Starrett has played soccer for 15 years including varsity soccer for four years at Parish. In 2014 he signed to play with Marymount California University where his team finished 3rd in the nation during his first season. Career highlights include two years playing on the USSF U16 and U18 Academy Teams, training in London with the Tottenham Hotspur youth team, and filming commercials for the largest soccer retailer in the United States, soccer.com and Kwikgoal. Scout started coaching in 2015 and is serving as the Parish Varsity and JV goalkeeper coach for boys and girls in addition to coaching several PARISHkicks teams.

David Huynh was born and raised in San Diego and relocated to Dallas in his early teens. He attended the University of Texas at Dallas and graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with minor in History. With more than 20 years in the sport of volleyball, coach Huynh played intramural leagues with collegiate players and in USAV tournaments. He is also a coach at Skyline Volleyball Club in Plano. He has been coaching club ball for over 12 years and has taken his team to Nationals numerous years. In 2019, his 11s team made third overall at Nationals and his first year at Parish he helped lead Parish varsity volleyball team to their first undefeated TAPPS 6A district championship in school history.

He is married to Snow and has two beautiful daughters, Trinidy ’22 and Dakota ’27. Outside of the sport of volleyball, coach Huynh enjoys fishing, traveling and shoe shopping.

Coach Huynh’s Coaching Philosophy:

“I believe every player needs to approach with the right mindset to help them better themselves. My goal as a coach is to improve the fundamental principles of each individual player and encourage them to challenge themselves. Year by year, every player should leave the court with more confidence in her game. Training, teamwork and determination will result in positive reinforcement which will benefit players not only in their athletic careers, but also their academic and professional careers. But most importantly, love what you do and always have fun while you’re doing it!”

Liz Holmes is an experienced coach with proven success coaching athletes of all ages and skill levels from beginners to highly skilled experienced athletes.

A native of Pennsylvania, Liz grew up playing field hockey. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from The University of Pennsylvania where she was a dual-sport athlete in field hockey and lacrosse and was coached by Hall of Fame coaches and the Captain of Team USA.

She coached both sports at the middle school and high school levels at The Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Villanova, Pennsylvania for seven years, as well as coaching for suburban Philadelphia youth leagues. Her teams enjoyed many undefeated seasons, in a very competitive conference

After moving to Dallas, she coached eighth grade field hockey at The Hockaday School for eight years, preparing girls for the school’s strong Varsity program. Liz started the Bishop Lynch High School Lacrosse program six years ago, teaching girls the sport and has generated tremendous growth in participation with 82 athletes involved last season. The team has been the TGHSLL runners-up in D3 the last two seasons.

Additionally, for 16 years Liz has been the Head Coach of the SMU Women’s Lacrosse Team, which was always ranked in the top five WCLA D2 teams nationally before moving to D1. The team was the perennial TWLL D2 Champion. She is responsible for all aspects of the program, training, motivating and developing the athletes, many of whom have received recognition as All Americans and Academic All-Americans. She serves as the President of the USA Lacrosse-WCLA Sub-Committee, and Chairman of the Texas Women’s Lacrosse League.