HENDERSON, Texas – Corsicana head football coach Phil Castles has accepted the same position at Henderson, where he will replace Dickey Meeks, the Corsicana Daily Sun reported Wednesday.
The newspaper reported that Castles met Wednesday morning with the Corsicana football players and informed them that he had accepted the job at Henderson.
The Henderson ISD released a statement late Wednesday morning confirming that Castles will be recommended by Superintendent Keith Boles to a noon meeting of the Henderson board of trustees on Monday.
Phil Castles … moving from Corsicana to Henderson (Corsicana Sun photo)
Meeks resigned last month to become head coach at Pittsburg, replacing former Clarksville and Honey Grove coach Robert Manley.
Castles is a Kilgore native with 22 years of coaching experience, including being the athletic director and head football coach at Elysian Fields and Chapel Hill. He is currently assistant athletic director and head football coach at Corsicana.
In his four years at Corsicana, Castles has a record of 30-19 and has led the Tigers to four playoff appearances and a state semifinal appearance in 2011.
Meeks announced last month he had accepted the head coaching job at Pittsburg, which plays in District 13-3A along with Paris, North Lamar, Liberty-Eylau, Atlanta and Pleasant Grove.
Meeks has a career record of 236-173-7, with most of the wins coming in East Texas at Chapel Hill, Pine Tree, Mount Vernon and Henderson. He was also a head coach in Louisiana.
Former Henderson coach Dickey Meeks, as he accepted new keys last month as Pittsburg’s new coach.
Meeks won a Class 4A state title in 1989 at Chapel Hill. After coaching at Pine Tree and Mount Vernon, he took over at Henderson and went 44-39, winning the Class 3A Division I state championship by beating Chapel Hill in 2010.
Meeks takes over a Pittsburg program that went 40-28 in six seasons under Manley.
Manley resigned in December as athletic director and head coach at Pittsburg, which was 2-8 last season, including 1-4 in district play. Overall, during his time at Pittsburg, Clarksville and Honey Grove, Manley is 112-70.
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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