Killeen ISD Hires Salado Football Coach to Lead Chaparral High School Bobcats Athletics

by Taina Maya

Special to MyKNCT.com

Killeen ISD announced Thursday the first-ever campus athletic coordinator and head football coach for the new Chaparral High School.

Salado ISD head football coach Alan Haire is set to take the reins of the brand-new Chaparral Bobcats athletics program.

Well-known to local high school sports fans, Haire led the Salado Eagles football team to a Class 4A Division II Regional Finalist finish in 2020 and to the state quarterfinalist finish in 2017. He has led Salado athletics since 2016.

After taking over a football program that had not produced a winning season in seven years, Haire led the Salado Eagles to the playoffs in five of six seasons and to state Top-10 finishes twice.

He is a graduate of Tarleton State University and has a master’s degree, with teaching credentials in government, health and PE.

Prior to coaching at Salado High School, Haire was athletic director at Stephenville ISD.

Killeen ISD’s sixth high school is set to open this fall and will compete in the new District 11-5A Division 1 in football with Belton, Waco University, Elgin, Leander Rouse, Pflugerville and Pflugerville Connally.

In most other sports, Chaparral High School is part of District 22-5A with Killeen, Ellison, Shoemaker, Belton, Lake Belton, Waco and Waco University.

The new 5A school will open with approximately 1,625 students. The campus includes KISD’s second regional stadium.

The school’s campus athletic coordinator is the fourth hire for the Chaparral Bobcats.

KISD announced just before Christmas that Gina Brown would be the school’s first-ever principal.

The campus is completing construction on the edge of the Yowell Ranch subdivision in south Killeen.

The Bobcats will compete in all sports wearing silver, navy blue and cardinal red.

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Thank you to I14 Sports’ Dan Hull for sharing this story with us.

Gary