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Southwest HS names Peter Wagner HFC/AD

Posted by Jay Tope on February 18, 2010 at 7:08 am

Congratulations to Southwest High School’s offensive coordinator Peter Wagner, who has just been named head football coach and athletic director at SWHS.

Wagner, who has coached at Southwest for the past four years, takes over for Matt Elliott, who recently took the HFC/AC position at New Braunfels Canyon High School. The SWISD school board made their decision at their Tuesday night board meeting.

Coaches named, coaches leaving

Posted by Jay Tope on February 11, 2010 at 2:59 pm

While NISD named two head football coaches this week, Seguin is losing theirs.

Steve McGhee and David Malesky have been named head coaches of Clark and O’Connor, respectively. Both were assistants at those schools.

Meanwhile, Jim Carson of Seguin has announced that he will step down as head football coach and athletic director of Seguin High School at the end of this school year.

Nick Mendez named Natalia HS Athletic Director

Posted by Jay Tope on February 9, 2010 at 6:29 am

Monday night at the Natalia ISD school board meeting, Nick Mendez was voted to be the next athletic director for the district.

Mendez had been the head football, baseball, and powerlifting coach; he will still head the baseball and powerlifting programs.

Nick is a mid-90’s graduate of Natalia High School, and has been at the school for the past nine years.

Blanco signing day

Posted by Jay Tope on February 5, 2010 at 7:34 am

Blanco High School had two athletes sign on this week’s signing day.

Both Henry Greathouse and Layton Dworaczyk signed with Texas A&M Kingsville. Blanco has had one of the most successful 2A football programs in the state over the past decade. The Athletic director is Danny Rogers.

SAsports.com and K-MAC Sports to broadcast UIL Realignment - Live

Posted by Jay Tope on January 25, 2010 at 6:09 am

Monday February 1st at 9:00am - every person within the high school sports community will be interested in the new UIL Realignment being released. And this year, SAsports.com and K-MAC Sports will be there.

We will post a link to our live broadcast of the UIL Realignment that morning. Our broadcast over the internet will start at 8:50am, and at 9am we will start reading off the alignments. In addition, we will interview UIL officials, and break down what the alignments mean.

2010 U.S. Army All-American Bowl - In Pictures

Posted by Jay Tope on January 10, 2010 at 10:43 am

Photos by Antonio Morano
SAsports.com Senior Photographer
www.moranomemories.photoreflect.com
amorano@satx.rr.com

Nate Askew of Madison High School was the lone San Antonio player in this year’s U.S. Army All-American Bowl, featuring the top high school seniors from around the country.

Nate poses with SSG Soto of the Army. It was a day that he and his family would be proud of, as he had three catches in the West’s 30-14 victory over the East.

His coach at Madison, Jim Streety, was also honored by being the head coach of the West all-stars.

More photos are available for viewing:
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O’Connor’s Padron becomes head football coach at TLU

Posted by Jay Tope on January 9, 2010 at 1:28 pm

by Jay Tope
Senior Editor, SAsports.com

What is a celebratory time at Texas Lutheran University is also a sad time at O’Connor High School.

Danny Padron, the head football coach and boys athletic coordinator at O’Connor High School for the past eight years, has accepted the head football coaching job at TLU.

I could go on and on about the history of Danny Padron; his 30 years as an assistant, how he built O’Connor into a powerhouse. But I’d rather talk about Danny Padron, the class act.

A 1969 graduate of John Jay High School, Padron has been a mentor, a motivational speaker, a Christian, and someone who supported every sport and activity wherever he’s been. Anytime I would be announcing a game at Paul Taylor Field House, boys or girls, Danny would be there showing his support.

But the moment I became a true Danny Padron fan was at a football game I covered in the Alamodome several years back. O’Connor was playing Clark, and it was before the Panthers had become a football power. The game was unique in another way: Padron was coaching against his son Andy, who was the starting quarterback at Clark (where Padron had been an assistant).

Trailing by two touchdowns with two minutes left, O’Connor came back to win the game. Cheerleaders on the Panthers side were crying tears of joy, the O’Connor football program finally defeated their big brother school, and the Panther fans were going crazy. But as I was running on the field to grab a post-game interview with Coach Padron, there was only one place he was running.

To find and console his son, the senior quarterback of the Clark Cougars.

I actually found Andy before Coach Padron did. You see, in the midst of the on-field chaos, Andy was looking for his dad. And when the two met at midfield, Andy had the biggest smile on his face, for he was so proud of his father. There wasn’t a dry eye anywhere. I still get teary-eyed thinking about that moment.

They embraced. And Danny Padron knew at that moment, as did everyone that witnessed that incident, how good of a father he was.

So let’s forget about how TLU’s season ended this year; 0-10, players and a student assistant coach suspended for allegedly beating a UIW player and putting him into the hospital.

Because Danny Padron is coming. And everyone that know him knows that the University football program in Seguin has much brighter days ahead.

Ty Detmer named HFC at St. Andrews HS in Austin

Posted by Jay Tope on December 15, 2009 at 8:24 am

It’s never a bad thing when your new head football coach is a former Heisman Trophy winner.

St. Andrews High School in Austin will announce today that Ty Detmer will become their new head football coach. St. Andrews competes in the Southwest Preparatory Conference, the same league that Saint Mary’s Hall belongs to, though SMH doesn’t field a football team.

Detmer, 42, was an all-state quarterback under his father, Sonny Detmer, at Southwest High School. Afterwards, he played at BYU where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1990. And a successful NFL career followed.

This is his first coaching job; brother Koy Detmer was an assistant at Somerset this past year, and is interested in the New Braunfels Canyon coaching vacancy.