Claude Mathis of DeSoto is the 2023 Football Coach of the Year for the Texas High School Coaches Association. Mathis led the Eagles to a perfect 16-0 season and a second straight state championship last season.
DeSoto finished No. 8 in the High School Football America 300 national rankings, powered by NFL Play Football. In winning the 6A Division II championship, the Eagles beat 6A Division I champ Duncanville, along with four other teams that finished in the HSFA 300.
“Coach Mathis led his team to excellence this past season, and we are thrilled that we can recognize his positive impact on his athletes and the school community,” said Joe Martin, the Executive Director of the THSCA. “Texas has the best coaches in the nation, and the THSCA Coach of the Year program allows us to highlight the best of the best.”
“Coach Mathis is a coach who wants to be more than an Xs and Os guy,” said Coach Kerry Sweeney, assistant coach at DeSoto High School. “He is a great academic coach who will collaborate and help any student to develop academic goals and help students with college admissions, grants, and various
scholarship opportunities.”
On Thursday, Coach Mathis will be a guest on the High School Football America Championship Chat Podcast.
