ABOUT CHARLIE

An alumnus of Pasadena High School, Charlie Goehring began a long career with Pasadena ISD, coaching cross country and track for 37 years. As a student at Pasadena High School, Charlie was active in athletics as a football player and a basketball player. He earned two varsity letters in football and was an end/wide receiver on the Eagles’ 1958 state finalist team, still the only Pasadena ISD football team to compete for a state crown. The entire team was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019. He continued to play football and basketball while he attended Texas Lutheran University.

After graduating from the University of Houston in 1971, Charlie started his career and coached in various capacities at Beverly Hills Intermediate School, Dobie High School and South Houston Intermediate School. He then served 16 years as the boys’ head cross country and track coach at South Houston High School. During this time, he built one of the best cross country and track progams in the area, achieving success at the district, regional and state levels. After that, he moved to Pasadena High, where he served 10 years as the boys’ head cross country coach, one year as the boys’ head track coach and eight years as an assistant track coach.

Highlights of his cross country teams include six district titles and three regional titles. He also qualified 13 teams and seven individuals to regional meets. Seven of his teams qualified for the state meet, in addition to three individual competitors. The 1985 South Houston team won the bronze medals at the state meet with a third place finish.

In track, he coached 40+ regional qualifiers and 10 state meet qualifiers. In 1986, he coached John Holmes, Pasadena ISD Hall of Famer, to a state championship in the 800 meters.

Charlie credits the outstanding achievements of his teams to the hard work and dedication of talented athletes and assistant coaches. The enthusiasm of faculty, administrators, students and parents of the athletes became a catalyst for continued success.

Charlie retired from Pasadena ISD in 2007 and continues to help run, officiate and start intermediate and high school meets for the district in both cross country and track. The annual South Houston Goehring Invitational Cross Country Meet is named in his honor because of his outstanding contributions to cross country and track. He was inducted into the Hall of Honor of the Gulf Coast Scholastic Track Coaches Association in 2009. He was named Honoree at the 2011 Pasadena ISD Brown Relays. He has also been named to the 2020 South Houston High School School Alumni Hall of Honor.

Charlie and his wife, Sandy, have been married for 61 years. They reside in the Pasadena area, as do their three children, seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.