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2025 WESTLAKE FOOTBALL PROGRAM
FOOTBALL FOOTBALL HEAD COACH HEAD COACH2025
Tony Salazar
Assistant Director of
Athletics/Football Head Coach
Coach Tony Salazar was named Head Football Coach of Westlake
HS in January 2022. He begins his 22nd year of coaching and his
12th year at WHS and has led the Chaps to three state champion-
ships. Prior to taking over as Head Coach, Salazar served as
Westlake’s Defensive Coordinator, where his defense consistently
ranked in the top five scoring defenses in the state of Texas - #2 in 2019 and
#1 in 2020 and 2021. Coach Salazar was the recipient of the Broyles Award in 2020, the top assis-
tant coaching award in the state. He was also a finalist for the Dairy Max-Dave Campbell’s Texas
Football Assistant Coach of the Year and a previous winner of the Central Texas Coaches
Association Assistant Coach of the Year. In 2024 for the 3rd consecutive year, Coach Salazar was
voted by his peers as Coach of the Year for District 26-6A.
Coach Salazar previously coached at Marble Falls HS, Leander HS, Dripping Springs HS and
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Salazar graduated from Dripping Springs HS where he was a
four-year letterman in football and a three-year letterman in
three additional sports. Coach Salazar received his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from the University of Mary Hardin-
Baylor. While at UMHB, Coach Salazar was a four-year
starting free safety and two-time team captain. He won the
American Southwest Conference freshman defensive player of
the year, the conference defensive player of the year his senior
year and also won first-team AFCA All-American honors.
Salazar was inducted to the UMHB Football Hall of Honor in
2016. When not working, he enjoys golfing, traveling and
spending time with his son, Cruz, and his wife, Adrienne.
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