Randy L. Allen ’73

 

Randy L. Allen has been the head football coach at Highland Park High School since 1999. A 1973 graduate with a bachelor of arts in social studies, Mr. Allen attended SMU on a football scholarship and lettered in football and baseball. Climbing the high school ranks an assistant coach, Mr. Allen earned his first head coaching job in 1981 at Ballinger High School. After stops at Brownwood and Abilene Cooper, Mr. Allen led the Scots to state championships in 2005 and 2016. Mr. Allen has the fourth-most wins of any high school football coach in Texas history and is the author of two books: Coaching by the Book and Coaching Character. Mr. Allen was named 2006 National High School Coaches Association Football Coach of the Year, is the 2014 recipient of the Grant Teaff Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the 2015 recipient of the AFCA Power of Influence Award. In 2017 he received the NFL Don Shula National High School Coach of the Year Award.