Big Spring Independent School District announced it hired Stacey Martin as its new athletic director and football coach on Monday.
Martin is a 1993 graduate of Big Spring High School and is currently serving as an assistant football coach and the boys track coach at Midland High. He replaces Cannon McWilliams, who stepped down from his position earlier this year to take the athletic director and football coach job at Crane.
Before Martin began his coaching career in 1998, he was an all-state defensive back at Big Spring before playing football and running track at Sul Ross State University.
Martin got his first shot as a head coach with Coahoma in 2008. He had other stops at Alpine, Slaton and Luling, compiling a 48-76 record in 12 years.
The Steers alum inherits a squad that finished the season 5-5 with an exit in the bi-district round to Brownwood.
Big Spring, a long-term rival of Lake View, moved down from Class 4A Division I to Division II and out of the Chiefs’ district in the most recent UIL Reclassification and Realignment. The Steers will compete in District 2-4A DII with a host of other West Texas teams, including Fort Stockton, Monahans, Pecos, Seminole and Snyder for the 2025-2026 school year.
Paul Witwer covers high school sports and Angelo State University sports for The San Angelo Standard-Times. Reach him at sports@gosanangelo.com. Follow him on X @Paul_Witwer, Instagram and TikTok at pwitwer_sast.
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