Lampasas High School graduate Lee Wiginton, far right, was recently named the head football coach at Midlothian High School. Also pictured, from left, are wife Becky, daughter Julia and son Haydon. Former Badger Lee Wiginton has accepted the head football coach position at Class 5A Midlothian.

Midlothian is in District 5 with Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Mansfield, Mansfield Timberview, Mansfield Legacy, Grand Prairie and South Grand Prairie.

The job is Wiginton’s fourth as a head coach. From 2000-2003, he was at Class 1A Bosqueville before heading to Class 2A Comfort, where he stayed until 2007. The last two seasons, Wiginton has been head coach for Class 3A Mexia.

In 10 years as a head coach, Wiginton’s teams have made the playoffs eight times, and he was named district coach or co-coach of the year six times.

A Lampasas High School Class of 1989 graduate and salutatorian of his class, Wiginton went to Angelo State University on a combination athletic and academic Carr Scholarship.

He played football for two years while majoring in mathematics, then received his master’s degree in educational administration with a mid-management certification from Southwest Texas State University.

During his last two years on scholarship at Angelo State, Wiginton served as a graduate assistant football coach for the Rams.

Wiginton is married to Becky Davis Wiginton of San Angelo, and is the father of seven-year-old son Haydon Davis Wiginton and three-year-old daughter Julia Ryan Wiginton. He is the son of Ken and Lou Wiginton of Lampasas, and his sister is Jill Schaffer of Austin.