Two of the biggest questions we ask in the Nomination form are: + Why do you think this Nominee should be elected to the Texas Private School Sports Hall of Fame? + What are the accomplishments of the Nominee that merits their election?

We'd like to think that Jose Trevino - seen here on the mound in his high school days at Corpus Christi St. John Paul II - would be all smiles about the quest to highlight the best ever of Texas private and parochial high school athletics.

As promised, our nomination form is live today. We fully expect for people to nominate those that the Committees considered for the inaugural class, and we look forward to that affirmation. Most importantly, we're concerned about those we may have missed that YOU know of!

Great to see UTPB creating its own Athletics Hall of Fame!

CONGRATS! - The Association of Former Students The Association of Former Students announced Tuesday that our inaugural inductee Gary Kubiak is among its 2025 Distinguished Alumni of Texas A&M University! Jointly given by Texas A&M & The Association, it's the highest honor given to a former student.

HISTORY | Quinn Connelley is a member of the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame Texas Tennis Museum. However, he was also the football coach for Houston The Kinkaid School Kinkaid Athletics from 1935 to 1939 before helping start the Houston Tennis Club in the spring of 1940.

DID YOU KNOW | Lucian "Lou" Robustelli, who coached the El Paso Cathedral football team in 1950 before being called into active military duty the following summer during the Korean Conflict, was the brother of Pro Football Hall of Famer Andy Robustelli, a 14-year NFL veteran.

DID YOU KNOW | Brownsville St. Joseph Academy's HFC from 1946 to 1948 was Alfred Patrarca. Per a great Brownsville Herald piece by Rene Torres in 2011, he played for Brooks Conover at Brownsville HS, a '41 grad, joined the Army Air Corps and was a Bataan Death March survivor.

Kedra Holland-Corn scored 3,209 points for Lutheran North before helping Georgia to the NCAA Final Four twice, including a runner-up finish in 1994-95. The school's 13th all-time leading scorer played seven seasons in the WNBA before playing professionally in four countries.

Doug Drabek played four varsity sports at St. Joseph - football, basketball, track and baseball - before pitching three years for the Houston Cougars. He spent 13 years in MLB w/four teams, going 155-134 and winning the Cy Young Award in 1990 (22-6 / 2.76 ERA in 33 starts).

Horace Ivory rushed for over 1,500 yards and 26 touchdowns his senior season at Nolan, earning Catholic HS All-American honors. Navarro inducted him into their HOF in 2023. He was part of two national titles at OU and was named all-Pro in 1980 as a KR for the Patriots.

Houston St. John's School '71 alum Paul Geis, who passed away in 2019 at 66, ran a school record 4:12 mile. He was the SWC champion at 3 miles as a freshman in '72 at Rice, then won the NCAA title in '74 at Oregon. Geis was an Olympic finalist in '76 at 5000 meters in Montreal.

Estep was recognized as Texas' top high school player in 1966 (his junior year). SWC champion and NCAA All-American at Rice. 12-year Pro Tour career; stronger in doubles. Began coaching in '83 and best known for helping Martina Navratilova during her rise. Member of three HOFs.

After helping Penn State to an NCAA semifinals appearance, McDonald played for the Houston Dynamo in the 1980s. He won two TCIL titles as a coach in 1991 and 1997, took the Crusaders to the UIL semis in 2011 and 2025 and the title game in 2010 and has won more than 600 matches.

A member of Volleyball Magazine's Fab 50 and the USA Junior National team during her Episcopal career, Levy, as a middle blocker, after redshirting in '98, helped lead the Nittany Lions to their first - of now nine - national VB titles in '99 before moving to OH with little prep.

DID YOU KNOW? | Monday, June 30, 2025

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DID YOU KNOW | Tuesday, July 2, 2025 Dallas Bishop Dunne's head baseball coach was Dick Gaffney, and it was the Falcons' second title in a row. He had a long career in private and public school education and is an inaugural member of the University of Dallas' Athletics HOF.

DID YOU KNOW | Saturday, July 5, 2025

Well done, Wayne Jones. It would be no surprise to one day see Coach Jones in our Hall of Fame too.