{"id":348151,"date":"2026-06-24T06:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348151\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:23:25","slug":"lake-worth-isd-names-armando-gutierrez-head-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348151\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Worth ISD names Armando Gutierrez head football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LW.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Lake Worth logo\" alt=\"Lake Worth logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Lake Worth logo<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Worth school district named Armando Gutierrez as Lake Worth High School\u2019s next athletic director and head football coach, and he will start July 1, according to Matt Stepp of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Matt_Stepp817\/status\/2069379005564748250\">Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez previously coached at Brownsville Lopez from 2018 to 2022, leading the Lobos to six wins before being reassigned.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as a head coach at Dallas Sunset from 2011 to 2016, leading the Bison to snap a 27-game losing streak in the 2014 season. He has had stints as an assistant at Thomas Jefferson High School and North Dallas High School.<\/p>\n<p>According to his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/armando-gutierrez-jr-m-ed-c-a-a-829b55136\/\">LinkedIn page<\/a>, he has also worked at the Denton, Los Fresnos Consolidated, Houston and La Joya school districts in administrative roles.<\/p>\n<p>Gutuerrez will take over a Lake Worth squad that posted a 2-9 overall and 2-3 District 6-4A Division I record en route to a bi-district playoff appearance. He is set to replace Todd Peterman, a former state champion with DeSoto who led the Bullfrogs to a 4-17 record in two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 23, 2026 at 10:44 AM.<\/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\/06\/1782282205_808_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":"Lake Worth logo The Lake Worth school district named Armando Gutierrez as Lake Worth High School\u2019s next athletic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-348151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348151","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=348151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}