was a graduate with the class of 1999 at Collinsville High School. He played football, baseball, and wrestled. After High School Coach Willard attended Tulsa Community College for two years, Rogers State University for one year, and then graduated from Northeastern State University in 2004 with a degree in Elementary Education. While attending college, Coach Willard volunteered his time coaching football and wrestling at Collinsville High School and coaching wrestling at Fort Gibson High School. Coach Willard after college took his first teaching/coaching job at Perry Public Schools from 2004-2005. At Perry, he taught middle school and high school math. He also coached High School Football, Junior High and High School Wrestling, and Head coached the first Junior High Baseball team at Perry. After one year at Perry, Coach Willard decided to come back to Northeastern Oklahoma and took a job at Welch Public Schools from 2005-2018. In his 13 year stint at Welch Public Schools Coach Willard taught math from 6th grade math up to Algebra One. He also coached Football and Baseball all 13 years. He was the Defensive Coordinator from 2008-2018 and the Head Baseball Coach form also from 2008-2018. He was also named the “Teacher of the Year” at Welch Public Schools in 2018. In 2018 Coach Willard took a new job at Chelsea Public Schools. At Chelsea he taught 6th Grade Math up to Algebra One. Coach Willard was also the Head Baseball Coach and Defensive Coordinator all four years he taught and coached at Chelsea. Coach Willard has been married for 7 years to his wife Kari Willard, an Executive Director at Brookdale Senior Living in Broken Arrow. Coach Willard and his wife have three sons. Sebastian Deckard, a graduate for Inola Public Schools in 2021, Gage Deckard, a Junior at Claremore High, and Brock Willard, a Fourth Grade student at Claremore.