Lake Worth has turned to a Palm Beach County native to coach its football team.
Micah Mays (No. 11), shown playing quarterback with the Palm Beach Makos in 2010, is the new head football coach at Lake Worth. (Post file photo)
Palm Beach Lakes graduate and former Suncoast coach Micah Mays has been hired to replace Jessie Hester as the Trojans’ head football coach.
The school announced the hiring Thursday, less than a month after Hester was arrested on one count of simple domestic battery.
Hester also has been replaced as the school’s athletic director. Glenn Stubbs, a former basketball, football, volleyball and swimming coach, has stepped into the role. He formerly served as the school’s aquatics director.
Mays played quarterback at Palm Beach Lakes before graduating in 1997. He went on to play college football at Grambling State.
Mays was an assistant with the Rams for six seasons before being named the head coach at Suncoast in 2010. He spent one season with the Chargers, finishing 2-8 but earning a playoff berth.
“(Mays’) knowledge and skill set will bring consistency and growth to the football program,” the school said in a statement.
Mays teaches math at the school.
