Wolves Athletics

Timberline High School

Boys Varsity Basketball


Coaches

Travis Noble.


Head Coach

Biography:

Coach Noble will be entering his 7th season (83-62 overall record at TLINE) as the Head Coach of the Wolves and has been in coaching for 15 years.  His teams have been competitive each year with the focus remaining on the defensive end.  Often times the Wolves are one of the top defensive teams in the SIC.  In the 19-20 season his team made a run to the state tournament. In the 2021-22 season the Wolves finished 2nd in DPPG in the SIC and in 2022-23 season the Wolves finished first in DPPG only allowing 46.5 PPG.  They have been Academic State Champions 4 out of the 6 years Coach Noble has been here.  The Wolves went undefeated at home (8-0) in the 22-23 season.  In the 23-24 season his team finished 22-5, played in the district championship, and finished 2nd at the state tournament.

Coach Noble was an outstanding high school basketball player in the State of Idaho who went on to play college basketball at Walla Walla Community College.  As a player at WWCC he was a 1st team Eastern Region Selection and led his team to an East Region Title.  After his 2 years at WWCC  he transferred to Montana State University-Northern (NAIA).  As a player at MSU-N he was a two-time All-Conference selection, Academic All-Conference selection, Conference Champion in 2008, Champion-of-Character Award winner, MSUN Excellence Award winner, and the MSUN Athlete of the Year in 2009. 

Coach Noble served as Assistant Coach at both colleges (3 years at MSU-N, 1 year at WWCC).  As an assistant at Northern they won 2 conference championships (2011, 2012) and made trips to the NAIA National Tournament in both those years.  While at WWCC as an assistant they were named Eastern Region Champs with a 23-8 record and made a run to the Elite 8 in the NWAC Tournament.

He began his high school varsity head coaching career at Oakley High School where he helped the boys basketball team win back-to-back District Championships, obtained a record of 83-36, had a 3rd place finish at state (2016), and was named the 2015 Coach of the Year.

Record By The Season: 18-19 (7-15), 19-20 (11-17), 20-21 (7-8), 21-22 (15-11), 22-23 (21-6), 23-24 (22-5)

State Tournament Appearances: 2020, 2023, 2024

All Conference Selections: Andy Ford (2019-1st Team), Cooper Lumsden (2020-2nd Team), Cooper Lumsden (2021- 1st Team), Garret Long (2021- Honorable Mention), Wade Zenner (2022- Honorable Mention), AJ LaBeau (2022- Honorable Mention), Alex Ko (2023- 2nd Team), AJ LaBeau (2023- Honorable Mention), Blake Kiesau (2023- Honorable Mention), Jachin Mertes (2023- Honorable Mention), Alex Ko (2024- 1st Team), Bryce Heinz (2024- Honorable Mention).

Robert Comer.


Varsity Assistant

Biography:
  • Played 2 years Walla Walla Community College
  •  Played 2 years Lewis-Clark State College-Regular Season and Tournament Frontier Conference Champions both years; 2 National Tournament appearances
  • Coached 1 year Walla Walla Community College
  • Coached 3 years Eagle High School-1 year Varsity Assistant, 1 year Sophomore Head Coach, 1 year JV Head Coach
  • Bachelors in Psychology
  •  Masters of Physical Education and Athletic Administration

Coach Comer will be entering his 3rd season as a varsity assistant.  Coach Comer focuses on player development with our guards, in-game coaching, offensive and defensive strategy, and developing game plans. 

Jesse Keltner.


Varsity Assistant

Biography:

Coach Keltner was a successful high school player. Leading the Anacortes High School Seahawks (WA) to a 4th place state finish. He received a first team award, along with Skagit Valley boys basketball player of the year.

He continued playing 4 years of basketball at Montana State University-Northern. Making multiple second team all conferences. In his senior season he was first team all conference, first team all defense, defensive player of the year, and an NAIA all American honorable mention selection.

He is in his 2nd season on Coach Noble's staff.

Ryan Hutt.


Varsity Assistant

Biography:

Coach Hutt will be entering his 2nd year as assistant varsity coach for the Wolves. He played varsity basketball at Borah High and graduated in 2001. He continued playing basketball for Treasure Valley Community College from 2001-03. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree from Boise State in Psychology and Physics.

 

Coach Hutt works for the Boise Fire Department as a Firefighter/Paramedic and has worked as a first responder for 14 years. He is an active participant in the training program with new recruits. He has also taught for multiple years at the ISU paramedic program training new paramedics and EMTs.

 

He grew up and lives in Boise with his wife Lindsay and their four dogs. He is excited to coach for Timberline High and to give back to the sport that gave him so much.

Justin Jones.


Varsity Assistant

Biography:

Coach Jones was born and raised in Idaho.  He was a graduate from Jerome High School in 2016.  During his time there he played for Coach Messick and the Jerome Tigers.  He is an alumnus of Boise State University where he earned a Bachelors in Accounting and a Masters of Accounting, Taxation.  He currently works for the State of Idaho as a Legislative Auditor.  Coach Jones will be entering his 2nd season with the Wolves.  Coach Jones assits with player development and day to day operations of running a high school program.

Ernesto Guerrero.


Varsity Assistant

Biography:

Coach Guerrero was born in raised in Idaho.  He was a graduate from Oakley High School (ID) in 2014.  He played for Coach Noble for 2 years and was a huge part of the teams success at Oakley High School.  Currently he works for Verizon in Nampa.  He will be entering his 6th season as the JV coach.  Coach Guerrero develops our younger athletes in preparation for Varsity basketball as well as assisting the Varsity team.

David Rickard.


Varsity Assistant

Biography:

 As a Boise High School graduate, Coach played under Coaches Cox, Thornsberry, and Larsen and is an alumnus of the University of Idaho.

Coach Rickard helps build the program with the younger players while also assisting the varsity.  He is entering his 6th season with the Wolves and has spent the last 2 years as the Sophomore Coach.  Accumulating a record of 41-6, finishing in 3rd place in the 2022-23 season and winning the Sophomore SIC regular season and postseason tournament in 2023-24. Coach Rickard was selected as the SIC Sophomore Coach of the Year in 23-24.


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