MAYFIELD, Ky. — Mayfield High School is turning to a veteran coach to lead its girls basketball program, naming Howard Dillard Jr. as the new head coach of the Lady Cardinals.<\/p>\n
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Dillard brings 26 years of coaching experience at both the high school and collegiate levels, giving Mayfield a seasoned leader as the program enters its next chapter.<\/p>\n
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Most recently, Dillard spent the 2025-26 season as head coach of the Paducah Tilghman Lady Tornado, leading the program to a 5-17 record. His coaching career also includes head coaching stints at Dyersburg State Community College, where he led the men\u2019s basketball program, and Shawnee Community College, where he coached the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
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In addition, Dillard has served as an assistant coach at Mid-Continent University as well as Graves County, Murray, Hickman County and Fulton City high schools, building a coaching r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that spans more than two decades.<\/p>\n
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Dillard takes over a Lady Cardinals program coming off a 14-13 season. While Mayfield finished above .500 a year ago under head coach Tom Foust, the Lady Cardinals graduated a significant portion of their scoring and veteran leadership. Dillard will be tasked with developing the team\u2019s next generation of contributors while looking to keep Mayfield competitive in a challenging First Region.<\/p>\n
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A graduate of Murray State University, Dillard is currently pursuing a master\u2019s degree in postsecondary education administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAYFIELD, Ky. — Mayfield High School is turning to a veteran coach to lead its girls basketball program,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,373281,34956,85],"class_list":["post-792965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-full-court-press","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}