Humble ISD trustees approved the renaming of the Kingwood High School tennis complex and courts in honor of two coaches.
The details
During the board’s Feb. 17 meeting, trustees approved renaming the Kingwood High School tennis complex to the “Kim Enocksen Tennis Complex” and the tennis courts to the “Kevin McElroy Courts.”
Enocksen, who was hired to serve as the coach of Kingwood High School’s tennis program in 1994, recently came out of retirement to head the program again after McElroy—who had served as head coach since 2021—died in early January.
“I'm just so proud to do this for these two wonderful people, and coach McElroy’s family is still in our heart,” trustee Chris Parker said during the meeting.
Career history
During Enocksen’s first stint as head coach, she led the program to 16 district championships in team tennis and to the regional qualifier round in team tennis each of those seasons, according to agenda documents.
In 2001, Enocksen was named Texas Tennis 5A Coach of the Year. In 2010, the Kim Enocksen Integrity Award was established by the Texas Tennis Coaches Association, agenda documents state. The award is given annually to a tennis coach who displays qualities of honesty, strong moral principles and great ethics in the game and in life.
In 2014, Enocksen became the first tennis coach in HISD history to be inducted into the Texas Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame.
Key players
McElroy first joined the Kingwood High School tennis program as an assistant tennis coach in 1998 before eventually taking over as head coach of the program in 2013, district officials said. He went on to briefly serve as the head coach at Deer Park High School before returning to lead the Kingwood program again in 2021. He continued as the head coach of KHS’s tennis program until his death Jan. 2.
Trustee Elizabeth Shaw said she was grateful for McElroy’s contributions to the program.
“Coach McElroy was an exceptional man,” Shaw said. “He was my son's mentor, so I'm very thankful that this has happened.”
McElroy earned several awards during his time with HISD, including the Kim Enocksen Integrity Award in 2011, 6A State Coach of the Year in 2017, the Character Award in 2023 and Regional Coach of the Year in 2025.
