Brittain to Enter THSCA Hall of Honor
from Times Record News
 Former Wichita Falls High School football coach Leo Brittain has been named to the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor. Brittain, who also coached at Graham and Vernon, will be inducted on July 22 at the 2009 Hall of Honor luncheon along with fellow coaches Luther Booker, Ronnie Gage, Ron Poe and Neal Quillin.
Brittain compiled a career record of 208-106-12. His final season at Old High was 2000 when the Coyotes won their first 14 games before bowing out in the Class 4A semifinals.
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Timberview Boys Basketball Showed Savvy Well Beyond its Years
from Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Just five years into its boys basketball program, Mansfield
Timberview already has an enviable accomplishment. It has played in the state tournament. Some well-established teams go much longer than five years between appearances, and some have yet to make it. But the Wolves can already say they’ve been there, even if their 76-51 loss to Houston Yates in a Class 4A semifinal wasn’t exactly what they were looking for.
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Wagner Coach a Worker
from San Antonio Express News
You didn't have to be around Wagner boys basketball coach Clifton Ellis very long during his playing days to appreciate his commitment to improve every time he stepped on the court. Whether it was at Roosevelt, where he started at point guard as a 15-year-old sophomore, Temple Junior College or Southwest Texas State, Ellis always was the first player to step on the floor for practice. And the last to leave. More
Trip to State Tournament was a First for Plowboys and Veteran Coach
from Abilene Reporter-News
If Roscoe boys basketball coach Johnny Martin and his Plowboys seemed more excited than most following their 52-48 overtime win over Plains in the Class 1A Division I state championship game Saturday, there's a good a reason for that. Martin, his team and the Roscoe community had been waiting a long time for a chance to unleash a celebration of that magnitude. Neither Martin -- a 33-year coaching veteran in his 30th season with the Plowboys -- nor the Roscoe program had ever reached the state tournament before this season. So the Plowboys state championship campaign that took them through one of the toughest 1A districts and several of the class' best teams wasn't expected by many outside of the town. More
D-FW Area Again Proves State's Best Basketball is Played There
from The Dallas Morning News
The birth of high school basketball as we know it today in the Dallas-Fort Worth area occurred in the fall of 1983 when Skyline High School freshman Larry Johnson scored 24 points without missing a shot – he was 9-of-9 from the field and 6-of-6 from the free throw line – in his debut against Thomas Jefferson. These days, the state's best basketball is played in D-FW. Any doubt, once again, was removed this past weekend at the Erwin Center. Ponder won the Class 2A title, Madison won the Class 3A title and DeSoto won the Class 5A title. And if Kimball had played any team other than powerful Houston Yates, it would've returned home with a title, too. More
Humble’s Sitton is Home at Last
from Houston Chronicle
So much of David Sitton’s life has been about getting to home.
First, second, third … home. That’s baseball. And Sitton is a baseball man.
The last couple of months, Sitton has wanted to get home more than he ever did as a player. More than he ever wanted any of the thousands of baserunners he hoped would cross the plate in the 25 years he has been the baseball coach at Humble High School.
Last week, No. 12 made it home.
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McCallum Hires Stony Point Assistant Raymond
from Austin American-Statesman
Todd Raymond received a text message congratulating him for being named varsity football coach at McCallum High. The message came from Nancy Honeycutt, the wife of longtime McCallum coach Pat Honeycutt, who died from a heart attack in late January while attending a Knights basketball game at the Delco Center. Raymond, 36, has been an assistant coach at Stony Point the past two seasons. He accepted the McCallum job, the Austin ISD announced.
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Blazing a New Trail: Americas High School Names Football Coach
from El Paso Times
Patrick Melton is hoping to blaze a trail to success for the Americas High School football team. The 30-year-old Angelo State University graduate was introduced as the Trail Blazers' new head football coach and athletic coordinator to an enthusiastic crowd in the AHS foyer. Melton will have his work cut out for him, as he inherits a team that went 10-20 the past three seasons under Rick Miller. The Blazers were 1-9 last year and have won just three district games the past two seasons. More
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