Nine apply for head coaching job at Abbeville High

The applying process is over for the new head football coaching job at Abbeville High and there are there are nine applicants.
The school district closed the application process at noon on Monday and the school administrators and school district administrators are expected to begin interviewing the candidates by the end of the week or next week.
Two of the applicants are already on the AHS football coach staff, while only one is coaching in the Acadiana. The rest are coaching or have coached at different parts of the state.
Three applicants have head coaching experience.
The two AHS assistant coaches who applied are: Allen Arclies and Donald Fuselier.
•Arclies coached at JH Williams Middle School before moving up to the high school team during this season.
• Fuselier was the offensive coordinator who brought a wide-open spread offense to the Wildcats in 2025. For the first time in years, AHS had a 2,000 yard passer and a 1,000 yard receiver.
• Taylor Latiolais. He is the offensive coordinator at St. Martinville High School, which competed against Abbeville.
• Andy Boone. He is the most experience coach with head coaching experience. Boone spent 15 years as the head coach at Avoyelles High School (81 wins at the school) and then took a head coaching job at Lakeview High in 2023 and Liberty Magnet High in 2024. He went 3-7 with Liberty High in 2024 and parted ways with the school after only one year.
• Joshua Jetton. He is the assistant football coach and the head baseball coach at Pickering High School.
• Lavelle Wilson. He is the assistant football coach at Richwood High School.
• James Dartez. He stepped down as the Baker High School head coach before this season due to family issues in South Louisiana. He had been the head coach at Baker for two years and won a district title each year.
Before accepting the head coaching job at Baker, he was the head football coach at Bolton High for two years and prior to that, he was the offensive coordinator at Northside High School and assistant football coach at Northwestern High School, Madison Prep (offensive coordinator) and Southern Lab.
He has 13 years of coaching experience.
• John Kavanaugh. He was the head football coach at Fontainebleau High School for three years and posted an 8-22 record. He has more than 20 years of coaching experience and eight as a head coach. He was let go as the head football coach in November.
Prior to Fontainebleau, he was a successful coach as Class 2A North Caddo, where he won district titles his final three years and five consecutive playoff appearances.
• Glen Logan. He did not coach any where in the LHSAA last year.