Wolverine Baseball

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​Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson returns to KingCo baseball as Head Coach at Bellevue High School, bringing 5 years of coaching experience, player development, and a lifetime of play.

A 2006 graduate of Georgetown University, he was a 4 year starter where he played SS and pitched. Collegiate summer ball took him to the Alaska Baseball League and play in Arizona.

Matthew was a three-year starter for Newport High School Varsity Baseball and captained the 2001 3A State Championship team in his senior year. Among other High School highlights were his playing for the Mariners Scout Team in 1999 and Baseball Washington in 2000 and playing for Food Giant in summer ball.

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Brad Jesernig

Brad is the new pitching coach for the varsity baseball team. A 2007 graduate of Capital High School in Olympia, he was a Second team all Narrows league third basemen and second team all-state pitcher.

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After high school, Brad attended Pepperdine University from 2008-2011 and was a right-handed relief pitcher for the baseball team and received his degree at the end of the 2011 season.

 

Brad's previous coaching experience includes Inglemoor, Interlake, Capital and our own Bellevue high in 2014. He was also a starting pitcher for assistant coach Pete Wilkinson’s Academy from 2004-2007.

 

Brad works as a realtor for Keller Williams Eastside when not supporting the Bellevue High baseball program.

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Pete Wilkinson

Is a former international Olympic program baseball and softball lead consultant, a former collegiate baseball player at the University of Southern California, a high school baseball coach in both California and Washington with teams ranked in the top echelon of statewide polls in both states, and a coach of State and Regional Champions at both the high school and select levels.

Pete has been recognized nationally and internationally for the quality of his teaching, coaching and mentoring his students. 

• He has been awarded the American Baseball Coaches Association’s “Collegiate Baseball News Tom House Teaching Professional of the Year Award”

• He served as Exclusive National Consultant for the development of both the baseball and softball Olympic Development Programs of the former Soviet Union

• He is on the Canadian national youth baseball coach certification faculty for BC Minor Baseball

• He has been a member of the National Pitching Association’s coach and player development faculty and later a Regional Director of that organization

• He has been named Conference Coach of the Year in his stint as head coach at Bellevue High School in Washington, and he has coached high school teams who have won Conference, District, Regional and State Championships

• He has been and continues to speak at and participate in state, regional, university, high school association, and national/international clinics and camps and to local and regional organizations

• He has spoken at the American Baseball Coaches Association annual conference and at the National Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association annual conference

• He served the Pac-12 Conference as an Umpire Observer in the first conference-sponsored program of umpire evaluation and development

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Harry Xue

Harry was a two-year varsity starter at Interlake High School and was a captain for both of those years. He was an honorable mention all KingCo selection his junior year and a second team all KingCo outfielder his senior year. After his senior season, Harry was given the Hammer award which is awarded to the best hitter on the team and was selected to play in the KingCo All Star Game. 

 

Harry went on to play one year of baseball at Bellevue College and one redshirt year at Seattle University as a left-handed pitcher before graduating in 2021. 

 

He played his final two years of high school baseball as well as his lone year of baseball at Bellevue College in 2017 under current Bellevue High School Head Coach, Craig Parthemer.

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Mitchell Holliday

Mitchell Holliday is new to coaching at Bellevue High School. Mitchell immigrated from Canada at a young age, and attended Lake Washington High, graduating in 2011. 

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After Graduation, Mitchell enlisted in the United Stated Air Force, serving as aircrew on a C-17 Globemaster. After finishing his service, Mitchell came back to the Seattle area.  

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Mitchell is currently employed as a Surveillance Technician for Snoqualmie Casino.