Weatherford ISD on Thursday announced the hiring of Lovejoy offensive coordinator Marshall Williams as the next head football coach at Weatherford High School. Williams takes over for Aubrey Sims, who departed to take over as the athletic director/head football coach at Alvarado High School.

“It’s been the greatest honor I’ve had in my career to work with Coach Dodge," Williams said. "I wouldn’t have gotten this opportunity if it wasn’t for Coach Dodge and the staff and the great production of the kids at Lovejoy. It’s been so valuable to learn under a legend for these past two years. I went to coaching school every day learning under him and it was awesome.”

Williams has spent the past two seasons as the offensive coordinator at Lovejoy High and he has head coaching experience as he spent four seasons from 2020-2023 as the head coach at Keller Timber Creek, where he led the Falcons to three playoff appearances and a 7-4 record in his final season in 2023.

The new Weatherford head coach also has had stints as an assistant coach at Southlake Carroll, White Settlement Brewer, Round Rock Cedar Ridge, Richland, Keller and Burleson. He takes over a Weatherford program that posted a 1-9 record a year ago.

“There’s only 17 jobs like this in all of Texas, a 6A program in a one-horse town, so I think there’s a lot of potential here," he said. "This community loves the Kangaroos and they are all in. I grew up playing against Weatherford. I have family and friends in the area so there was a level of familiarity. It really checked a lot of boxes for my family.

“When Weatherford named Coach Curran as athletic director it made the job even more attractive because we’ve worked together when he was at Byron Nelson and I was at Timber Creek. So being in the same district we’ve got familiarity. The interview process from WISD  was great and fast-paced, Weatherford has a new superintendent, a new athletic director and now a new football coach, so we are in lock-step."

The Kangaroos remain in District 3-6A after UIL Realignment, but they have an entirely new district as they join the five Arlington ISD schools, Granbury up from Class 5A-Division I and fellow Parker County program Aledo, also up from 5A-Division I.

Coach Williams plans on starting at Weatherford immediately and will be meeting his team Friday before he and his family are formally introduced to the Weatherford ISD school board on Monday.