{"id":161777,"date":"2026-02-12T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161777\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:33:28","slug":"lubbock-christian-school-names-sam-collins-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161777\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Christian School names Sam Collins head football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The state champion Lubbock Christian School Eagles have a new head football coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LCS promoted Sam Collins. He served as offensive coordinator of the 2025 TAPPS 4A Division III state champion team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UT Permian Basin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/31\/chris-softley-named-next-football-coach-utpb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/31\/chris-softley-named-next-football-coach-utpb\/\">hired previous LCS coach Chris Softley<\/a> as its next head football coach in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/06\/lubbock-christian-wins-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/06\/lubbock-christian-wins-state\/\">Lubbock Christian wins state championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Collins has 16 years of coaching experience, with a 173\u201335 career record, and an 83% career win percentage. He becomes the 17th head coach in program history as LCS approaches its 60th football season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/15\/end-zone-team-week-lubbock-christian-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/12\/15\/end-zone-team-week-lubbock-christian-eagles\/\">End Zone Team of the Week Dec. 14: Lubbock Christian Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The state champion Lubbock Christian School Eagles have a new head football coach. LCS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,66252,170,169,66253],"class_list":{"0":"post-161777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-christian-school","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-sam-collins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}