Killeen ISD announced the hiring of two new head football coaches on Friday afternoon.

Killeen High named North Mesquite defensive coordinator Roderick Sneed as the next head football coach of the Kangaroos. Sneed replaces Josh Sadler, who stepped down in March to take a job outside of education.

Sneed spent the past two seasons at his alma mater North Mesquite as the Stallions defensive coordinator where, in 2025, he helped them to their first playoff appearance since 2015.

Sneed, who played four seasons of college football at Colorado, also spent time as an assistant coach at West Mesquite, Denton Braswell, Mount Pleasant, Lake Highlands and Dallas Pinkston.

“You get into coaching to help kids get to a level they’d never think they’d reach," Sneed said. "I was lucky as a young coach to have great mentors who always told me not to worry about titles and be where your feet are. So, I always wanted to be the best version of me wherever I coached at. I am fortunate to have earned this opportunity and I’m really excited to get started."

Sneed takes over a Killeen High program looking for a spark as they drop down to Class 5A-Division I after a 1-9 campaign in 2025. He’s hoping to get started at some point next week.

“I’m excited to meet the kids and community," he said. "The message is we are a team, we are going to have pride and purpose in everything we do. We want to move the needle in who we are and how we approach every single day."

Killeen Shoemaker, which just missed the playoffs a year ago at the Class 6A level with a 7-3 record, decided to stay in-house by naming defensive coordinator Roy Locks as the new head coach.

The new Shoemaker head coach has spent the past nine seasons at SHS. He’s also spent time as an assistant coach at Beaumont Central, Katy Seven Lakes, Rosenberg Lamar Consolidated, Sheldon CE King, West Orange-Stark and at Northwestern State where he was a full-time staffer and a graduate assistant. Locks also played his college football at Northwestern State.

“I’m excited about this opportunity," he said. "This is a special group we have. These kids have had a good offseason and it’s always been my goal to lead my own program. Coach Foreman and I have similar styles because we were high school teammates and came up under the same tree, but I’ll put my own spin on things of course."

Both Killeen High and Shoemaker enter into a new district in 2026 as both drop down from Class 6A and join the newly formed District 12-5A Division I, which is considered one of the tougher districts in the state.