Lightfoot named new Weatherford College AD

Jeff Lightfoot will be Weatherford College's next athletic director.

Weatherford College

Weatherford College President Tod Allen Farmer has announced the appointment of Jeff Lightfoot as the college’s full-time athletic director.  

Lightfoot has been WC’s head baseball coach since 2002. He will hire a new head baseball coach at the end of his team’s postseason. 

He will replace Bob McKinley, who is stepping down from the AD position to exclusively coach women’s basketball. 

“Coach Lightfoot is a winner,” Farmer said. “He knows the cultural discipline and hard work necessary to win national championships in multiple sports. I am highly confident that in his new capacity as WC athletic director he will build on the rich tradition  of the past and lead WC athletics to the next level.” 

Lightfoot is in his 27th season as a head college baseball coach, including 23 years as the only head coach in the modern era of WC baseball. Through the end of the 2025 regular season, he has a career record of 908 wins, 563 losses and one tie. He has also served as the college’s assistant athletic director since 2011. 

“I will always love the game of baseball, and I’m grateful for my time spent on the diamond,” Lightfoot said. “That being said, I have always had the desire to lead on a large scale. I’m blessed to get the opportunity to do that at Weatherford College. The vision that President Farmer and the WC Board of Trustees have for this college and Coyote athletics is exciting. Great things are on the horizon, and I can’t wait to get to work.” 

Lightfoot’s 2001 Eastfield College team won the national championship at the Division III level of the National Junior College Athletic Association, and he was named National Coach of the Year by the NJCAA.  

At WC, his teams have won four conference championships, one regional championship and a third-place finish at the 2023 NJCAA Division I World Series. He has won the Coach of the Year Award from the Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference four times.

In addition to baseball, WC fields teams in softball, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, men’s and women’s rodeo, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s and women’s golf.  

“The uniform may be a little different, but the mission remains the same,” Lightfoot said. “I expect to work alongside the athletic staff and coaches at WC to help facilitate a championship culture and excellence in all that we do.”