Frisco Lone Star offensive coordinator Brett Gilchrist has been named the next head football coach at Whitehouse High School, according to a Whitehouse ISD press release. He'll replace Kyle Westerberg, who stepped down after the end of the 2025 season.

“It was a surreal feeling when I got the call that I was the next football coach at Whitehouse," Gilchrist said. "We were in the middle of our playoff run and had just beaten Aledo, so it was a pretty good couple of days."

Gilchrist has spent the past four seasons as Lone Star’s offensive coordinator and helped guide the Rangers to the 2025 5A-Division I state championship game. Lone Star was consistently one of the top offenses in all of Class 5A in his four seasons.

He is a native of Whitney where he played for his father Kenneth Gilchrist, who is now the head coach at Prosper Richland. After finishing up a college baseball career at Tarleton, Gilchrist became a middle school coach in 2019 in the Lone Star feeder pattern.

In 2020, Gilchrist moved to Prosper Rock Hill where he was the wide receivers coach for two seasons before returning to Frisco ISD in 2022 to become the offensive coordinator at Frisco Lone Star.

“I feel like Whitehouse is a great place to raise a family and a great place to live," said Gilchrist, who starts on Jan. 5. "The football and athletics is a bonus. When I first got into town for the interview, it felt a lot like my hometown. I’m actually not a city guy, so it really appealed to me.

“My top priority is getting my feet on the ground and getting to know all the stakeholders. I want to get everyone involved, the kids are the priority but I want the entire community involved."

If you are a Frisco Lone Star offensive coordinator, there’s a good chance you’ll end up becoming a head coach as this is the seventh time in 13 seasons that a Rangers offensive coordinator has left to become a head coach of his own program.