{"id":248452,"date":"2026-04-14T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248452\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:37:09","slug":"decatur-girls-basketball-coach-departs-for-midwestern-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248452\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur girls basketball coach departs for Midwestern State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FTW_DecaturHighBrazile9.JPG\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"Decatur High School head girls basketball coach Drew Coffman works during a practice at Decatur High School in Decatur, Texas, Tuesday, March 31, 2026.\" alt=\"Decatur High School head girls basketball coach Drew Coffman works during a practice at Decatur High School in Decatur, Tx. Tuesday, March 31, 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Decatur High School head girls basketball coach Drew Coffman works during a practice at Decatur High School in Decatur, Texas, Tuesday, March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Bob Booth<\/p>\n<p>            Special to the Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>Midwestern State announced Monday that Decatur girls basketball head coach Drew Coffman will be the program\u2019s next head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman, fresh off winning back-to-back Class 4A Division I state championships with the Eagles, is a Midwestern State alum and played basketball there, averaging 17 points in the 2006-07 season. The school, located in Wichita Falls, has a Division II women\u2019s basketball program.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman was recently named the 2025-26 Star-Telegram Fort Worth-area <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/dfwvarsity\/article315344030.html\">Girls Basketball Head Coach of the Year<\/a>. He is the 13th head coach in Midwestern State\u2019s history and ends his high school basketball career with a 476-146 overall record.<\/p>\n<p>He has coached at Decatur since 2012. He led the boys team for nearly a decade and took over the girls program in 2021, establishing the Eagles as local powerhouse. Coffman has also coached boys basketball at Hico High School, Kermit High School and Eaton High School.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/276018746\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776130629_751_Charles_Baggarly (1).jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Charles Baggarly\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/276018746\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Baggarly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Charles Baggarly is a high school sports editor and reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He graduated from TCU in 2023 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and served as TCU 360\u2019s sports editor. Connect with Charles on Twitter or via email.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Decatur High School head girls basketball coach Drew Coffman works during a practice at Decatur High School in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-248452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248452","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=248452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}