Lubbock ISD on Thursday morning filled a pair of head coaching openings as Monterey High School and Estacado High School both have new head coaches after both candidates were approved at the Thursday morning school board meeting.  

Duncanville defensive coordinator Judd Thrash was named the head coach at Monterey High School, Thrash who has spent the past two seasons in Duncanville is the latest in a long line of Reginald Samples assistant coaches to land head coaching jobs in the past few years. Thrash does have head coaching experience spending 2017 and 2018 as the head coach at McGregor. Prior to that Thrash was a valued assistant coach at Colleyville Heritage, Austin Westlake, Lake Travis, Round Rock Stony Point and Rockwall-Heath.  

Thrash takes over a Monterey program that surprisingly missed out on the playoffs in 2021, he becomes the seventh Duncanville assistant coach to land a head coaching job since 2018.  

Fort Bend Hightower offensive assistant coach Will Blaylock was named the next head coach at Estacado High School, Blaylock who does have ties to West Texas as he earned his master’s degree from West Texas A&M and also spent two years as a GA at West Texas A&M. He played collegiately at Tulane and Baylor. He’s been on staff at Hightower the last three years and has been an assistant coach on staff at Tomball, Arlington Seguin, Tyler, Sulphur Springs, Crosby and Spring Dekaney. 

Blaylock takes over an Estacado program that has won three straight district titles under Joe Cluley, but is moving up to Division I in Class 4A.