Brandon Badgeley joined the Howard Payne athletic department as the head women's coach in the spring of 2016.

Since, Badgeley has built the Lady Jackets back to an ASC playoff level team and developed players like 2019 ASC Goal Keeper of the Year Delaney Castor.

In 2021, Coach Badgeley led the team to an 11-5-2 season after being preseason predicted to finish 11th overall in the ASC preseason coaches’ poll. Improving from 1-7 overall in the spring 2021 season, Coach Badgeley received ASC Coach of the Year honors.

Under his direction, the Lady Jackets tied the Howard Payne record for wins in a season and recorded the best start in program history in 2021.

Along with his coach of the year honor, Badgeley had seven players receive all-conference awards, including ASC Freshman of the Year, Lexi De La Cruz.

With his team boasting the highest team GPA among women’s sports at HPU, Carrie Gerdes was also named CoSIDA Academic All-District in 2021.

Before HPU, Brandon Badgeley spent the two seasons as the head girls coach at Cedar Hill high school in Cedar Hill, Texas. There he increased the team’s win total by seven games and achieved first double digit win season for Cedar Hill in last four years.

Before Cedar Hill, Badgeley spent two seasons at Haltom High School in Haltom City, Texas where he led the program to its first double digit win season in 17 years, only the 2nd in the program’s 25 year history. He also grew program from 40 student-athletes to nearly 70 in two years.

A 2009 graduate of Howard Payne, as a student he was an initiator assisting the administration in the creation of the first intercollegiate soccer programs at Howard Payne University. He was assigned the task of developing a business plan that was presented to the HPU Board of Trustees that initiated HPU’s first Division III intercollegiate men’s and women’s soccer programs. 

He served as a student assistant coach at Howard Payne to both the men’s and women’s teams under Sam McCutchen and Kevin Wright in the program’s first three seasons.

After graduating from HPU in May of 2009 with a Bachelors of Business Administration, he worked one year as a teacher in Midlothian ISD and as a volunteer coach with the Midlothian soccer program. He then spent two years working for the Hurst Euless Bedford ISD as a teacher before taking the head soccer position at Haltom High School.

Brandon holds a NSCAA National Level 2 Goalkeeping Certificate. He is married to Lindsay and they have four children Ainsley, Beckham, Coleton and Darby.