Pearland head coach Tony Heath begins his 10th year at the helm of the Pearland Oilers football and has engineered one of the greatest turn arounds in Texas high school football history. After the Oilers were 6-63-1 from 1990-1996 - Heath has seen his Pearland teams register a nine-year record of 75-29 making him the winningest coach in PHS history with the 2001 squad setting a new PHS record at 13-1 with a trip to the Class 5A Division I state semifinals. The Oilers won the District 24-5A crown that season with a perfect 7-0 mark and won a first-ever Class 5A Region III title.

Heath received District 24-5A and the Houston Chronicle's "Coach of the Year" honors in 2001. He was a "Coach of the Year" finalist by the Touchdown Club of Houston for five of the last six years (2000-2003, 2005).

Pearland is going for a record seventh consecutive playoff appearance in 2006. The Oilers were District 24-5A co-champions in 2004 and won the title last season in 2005 with a perfect 10-0 regular season mark for only the third time in school history. All four sub-varsity teams captured the district title in their respective levels (Junior Varsity and Freshman). All the teams (Varsity, JV, Freshman) finished the regular season with an unprecendented 40-0-2 overall record. Heath was District 24-5A "Coach of the Year" in 2005.

Over the past six years, Heath and the Pearland Oilers have a 70-13 record making them one of the top five winningest football programs in the Houston area.

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