{"id":282752,"date":"2026-05-07T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:26:14","slug":"fort-worth-area-coach-former-state-champion-will-not-return-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282752\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth-area coach, former state champion will not return for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Worth head football coach and athletic director Todd Peterman will not return to the school for the 2026 football season, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Matt_Stepp817\/status\/2052149110703050799\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Matt Stepp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;according to Matt Stepp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">according to Matt Stepp<\/a> of Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Worth ISD <a href=\"https:\/\/lwisd.schoolspring.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted Peterman\u2019s job on School Spring;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;posted Peterman\u2019s job on School Spring&quot;}\" class=\"link \">posted Peterman\u2019s job on School Spring<\/a>, a job board. The Star-Telegram reached out to Lake Worth ISD and has yet to receive a response.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Peterson led the Bullfrogs to a 4-17 record in two seasons at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Peterman led DeSoto to its first state championship in 2016 and spent nine seasons as a coach with the Eagles. He posted 32-8 overall record with DeSoto before resigning in 2018. He then spent four seasons as the head coach of White Settlement Brewer, leading the Bears to two playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking over at Lake Worth, he served as an offensive coordinator at Duncanville High School, helping lead the Panthers to two state titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Worth head football coach and athletic director Todd Peterman will not return to the school for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104148,104142,104146,116,118,117,2091,104143,11906,104147,104144,104145],"class_list":["post-282752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-bullfrogs","tag-dave-campbells-texas-football","tag-duncanville-high-school","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-lake-worth","tag-lake-worth-head-football-coach","tag-lake-worth-isd","tag-matt-stepp","tag-school-spring","tag-white-settlement-brewer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282752","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=282752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}