The former athletic director and head football coach at Lometa has been reassigned to another position at the Lometa campus after the school board directed the superintendent to move in a different direction with his position.
At the April 22 meeting of the Lometa Independent School District Board of Trustees, board members decided to relieve D.T. Torres of his duties as the athletic director and head football coach for the Hornets.
The Dispatch Record reached out to Lometa Superintendent Rob Moore for comment Wednesday afternoon on the events of the school board meeting, and he declined to comment on that process.
Torres said he was offered a one-year contract on April 23 by Moore to stay with the district next year as a teacher and an assistant coach within multiple sports.
Torres was the athletic director for nine years, and he had been a coach within the school district for nearly 13 years.
Torres wanted to clarify that he has not been fired from the district but instead has been reassigned.
“After being told they were going in a different direction, I was offered by Mr. Moore a contract which I have already signed for next school year continuing to teach,” Torres said. “And as far as the coaching responsibilities, just being reassigned on the coaching staff. And that’s all I was told from Mr. Moore.”
The former head coach said he was present for the April 22 school board meeting and gave his monthly report on athletics as he had done each month for the past nine years, but then he left the meeting and said he was never addressed by the board members before they made their decision to relieve him of athletic director duties.
Torres added that he gave everything he had to Lometa all of the nearly 13 years he has been with the school district from which he graduated.
“I’m grateful for every kid; I love each and every kid that I’ve ever taught or coached or just saw in the hallway,” he said. “I truly, truly tried to make a difference, and I was grateful to see every kid.
“I’ve seen a lot of kids grow up and do some great things, and I keep in touch with a lot of them,” Torres said. “And truly, Lometa ISD, Lometa staff, Lometa administration has been great to me the last 13 years. It was a school board decision that seemed at the last minute without the recommendation of the superintendent Mr. Moore to go in a different direction with me.”
