We welcome a guy who was has been racking up the hardware this offseason as HABCA AND TABC Assistant Coach of the Year honors! He is someone Coach Kovo has known for a long time going all the way back to their days together at Fort Bend Clements, he is the Assistant Basketball coach at Katy Seven Lakes HS where he has been for the past 12 years, welcome Wes Kohl to the show!
Growing up in the Spring Branch area of Houston where many families have stayed for decades
Going to high school at Spring Woods and playing in an uber-competitive district where it was always a dog-fight just to finish atop the other Spring Branch ISD schools, not to mention the tough Elsik and Hastings teams out of Alief ISD
Coach was all set to be the man his senior year but those plans were slightly led astray by a brush with fame with a future Aggie Football and Green Bay Packer star who came in as a freshman and quickly made an impact
After some great years as a student in College Station, he headed back home to start his coaching career just down the road from where he grew up, settling in at the far end of HISD in the newly opened Westside HS.
From there he followed his mentor Carey Palmer to start another program at Morton Ranch before continuing his ascent up the coaching ladder to become the assistant at Fort Bend Clements under Ralph Farley. After that he found a home at Seven Lakes HS under top-flight coaches Dan Miller and Shannon Heston.
Finally we play an Aggieland hoops edition of Start/Bench/Cut with names like Law, Middleton, and Caruso, and some football editions with legends like Nguyen, Miller, Coryatt, Richardson, Tannehill, and Manziel before ending with some Clutch City editions with names like Olajuwon, Howard, and Yao, and Drexler, Harden, and Francis
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