New EISD athletic director hired
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By Lisa Shapiro
Staff Writer
Edna Independent School District athletes will have a new leader. Raymond “Huey” Chancellor was named the new EISD athletic director during an EISD Board of Trustees special meeting on Monday, Feb 24.
He will be replacing Mike Pierce who will be retiring. Chancellor will also serve as the head football coach at Edna High School.
Trustees unanimously voted to hire Chancellor as the new athletic director. He signed a three year contract for $92,000 a year. Trustees went in executive session at 6:37 p.m. and came back at 7 p.m. to vote.
EISD Superintendent Robert O’Connor said Chancellor was tentatively set to start his job on March 3. O’Connor and Chancellor coached football together at Bellville High School. Chancellor said he and O’Connor had much success with the Bellville football team and that he is looking forward to working with O’Connor again.
O’Connor said Chancellor has a record of running a good overall athletic program at Rockport-Fulton, where he had been an athletic director and head football coach for the past three seasons and Bellville High School where he was head football coach and athletic director from 1995 to 2009.
Chancellor was born in Midland and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa. He attended Odessa Junior College and transferred to the University of New Mexico on an athletic scholarship. Chancellor graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education, with a minor in health.
“He graduated from Permian during the days of Friday Night Lights,” O’Connor said.
Chancellor also has been a head coach at Cibola High School in Albuquerque, Palacios High School and Pine Tree ISD in Longview. His overall record is 141-107 in 22 seasons.
Chancellor’s wife, Dana, is a special ed teacher and coaches golf at Rockport-Fulton. His daughter Casey Pesek was recently hired as the head volleyball coach at Richard King High School in Corpus Christi. His daughter, Kristen, is an eighth grade English teacher in Las Vegas and his daughter, Kelli, is a student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
A full story will be published in the March 5 issue of the Jackson County Herald-Tribune.
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