Tamisha Houston

Happy National Coaches Day! Coaches are some of our favorite people! Their entire days are filled with practices, training sessions, meetings, teaching, watching film, scouting the opponents, gameplanning, taking care of the well-being of their athletes, promoting those athletes, sometimes filling in coaching other sports and, heck, sometimes they even drive the bus to and from the game. We are so dang privileged to know so many great coaches and get an up close view of their world basically every day. Nothing but respect for the work they do to make high school athletics an amazing opportunity for students and we couldn’t be more grateful for the collaboration of our coaches that we get to work with all season. Our biggest goal is to showcase and tell the story of high school athletics and we are super thankful for the front row seat provided by these amazing coaches! Here is our yearly shoutout to the head coaches (as well as their coaching staffs and athletic directors!) *More pictures on Facebook/IG*

Beyond blessed to receive an offer from the University of St. Thomas! ❤️💛 Thank you God for blessing me with this achievement. Thank you to my parents for supporting me. Huge thank you to Coach Ghavidel for giving me this opportunity!

💙💛🤠Geaux Pokes! #committed #AGTG @hotshotsnation @McNeeseSoftball @CONROESOFTBALL

Alamo City Hoops tourney! 2-0!! #paigehumphrey

Von Miller reveals after Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman suspended him, he packed everything he owned into his truck and started driving to Florida to transfer, when he called his he dad told him not to quit, so he turned around and led the nation with 17.5 sacks the next season “I had everything I owned in this blanket, and I went to my car. I threw it in the back and I’m driving home. I called my daddy. I’m like, ‘Daddy, man, I’m leaving. Coach Sherman kicked me off the team. I ain’t coming back until I do this and that.’” “I’m thinking my dad is going, ‘All right, we’re going to find something else.’ He said, ‘Pull that truck over, turn around, and go back to school. You’re not quitting.’” “I was like, ‘That was not the answer I was looking for.’ He was like, ‘You’re not just about to quit when it gets hard. You’re going to turn that truck back around. You’re going to go back to school and you’re going to fix it.’” “I had tears going down my face. I was like, ‘Man, this is going to be so hard to fix all of this.’ I turned around. We had a meeting. Coach Sherman told my dad the exact same thing that he told me, and my dad agreed with Coach Sherman.” “There was nowhere I could go. I just had to face the music. I had to face the truth. That spring was a hard one, but I got my grades up. I made it to all my classes. I went through the checklist of everything Coach Sherman wanted me to do.” “That following year, my junior year, was the best year that I had up until that day. I led the nation in sacks. I had 17 and a half sacks. My life had totally changed. That was all a testament to running straight through the storm. The shortest way through the storm is straight. I put my head down and I worked, and my life totally changed that offseason.”