Westfield football was something of a poster child for stability for so long, going more than two decades with one head football coach.

            Now, the school is looking for its third head coach since Ronnie Jones retired after the 2015 season.

            Bruce Lane has resigned, according to Westfield athletics director Chip Champion, as has Lane’s son Christian. Champion said in an email that Bruce Lane resigned last Tuesday and has left the school.

            The move comes less than a year after Westfield announced the hiring of Lane, who returned to Central Georgia after years of coaching in Texas and South Carolina.

            Lane succeeded Jamey Watson, who was promoted to replace Jones. Watson went 1-9, 2-9, and 4-7 before being released, and he spent last season coaching defensive backs at Veterans.

           According to the Georgia High School Football Historians Association website, this is the first time in program history Westfield has had four straight losing seasons. That follows four straight seasons of double-digit wins, including GISA Class AAA state titles in 2013 and 2014.

            Lane is 96-86-1 in Georgia at Westfield, Augusta Christian, Southland, John Milledge, GMC, and Monroe Academy.

            From 2009 until taking the Westfield job, he had been a head coach at Fort Bend Christian Academy in Sugar Land, Texas, Wilson Hall in Sumter, S.C., and he left Rosehill Christian in Tomball, Texas to take over the Hornets.

             Wilson Hall won the SCISA state title in 2013. Rosehill Christian was a finalist among private schools for the Touchdown Club of Houston sportsmanship award in 2018, the Eagles going 9-2. Lane went 29-24 at Rosehill.