{"id":28497,"date":"2025-05-06T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/28497\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:59:09","slug":"lafayette-high-hires-stephen-hearen-as-new-football-coach-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/28497\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette High hires Stephen Hearen as new football coach | High Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a nearly monthlong search, Lafayette High has hired Stephen Hearen as its new head football coach, the Lafayette Parish School System announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hearen, who has spent the past three seasons as the head coach at Ascension Episcopal, returns to the school where he graduated in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>With the Blue Gators, his first head coaching opportunity, Hearen led Ascension Episcopal to an overall record of 22-13 and three playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>This past season was the Blue Gators\u2019 best under Hearen as Ascension Episcopal went 9-2 overall, earned the No. 5-seed and a first-round bye before losing in the second round to Kentwood.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to taking over at Ascension, Hearen served as an assistant at Lafayette High (seven years), Breaux Bridge (one year) and De La Salle (two years).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome Coach Hearen back home to Lafayette High,\u201d Superintendent Francis Touchet, Jr. said in a press release. \u201cHis experience, leadership, and connection to the school make him the ideal person to lead our football program forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearen replaces <a title=\"Lafayette High seeking new head football coach after moving on from Garrett Kreamer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/dfdcd1e2-093a-4082-b9d4-962dbe68fc87\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Kreamer<\/a>, who was relieved of his duties in April, despite leading the Lions to a 5-6 record and the program\u2019s first playoff berth since 2021. In the two seasons with Kreamer, a 2009 Comeaux High graduate, the Lions were a combined 8-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a nearly monthlong search, Lafayette High has hired Stephen Hearen as its new head football coach, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,4095],"class_list":{"0":"post-28497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-hardwall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114461249767420664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}