Kirk Martin-You the Manvel! Hoka Hey Brave Man that built Manvel into a National Power returns home!

05/18/23 • 40 min

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Coach Kirk Martin returns home to the program he started from scratch and built into a perennial State Title Contender. The Manvel community has open arms for the return of their favorite Coach who built up relationships that have lasted a lifetime. The Martins are all about family! Caren and Kirk raised 4 super athletes at Manvel with a few moves along the way. The Martins have never forgotten their roots...from El Paso to the MOJO at Odessa Permian, the Hoka Hey at Manvel, New York, Dallas, Houston, and all points in between! It’s a journey that put his oldest in the NFL from Syracuse and impacted communities everywhere with Martin love! Kirk talks about the return to Nolan Ryan’s birthplace in the Alvin ISD and how much the community has grown. Who are the greatest Manvel athletes of all-time ?? Is it Deriq King, Kyle Trash, or his 3 Sons ?? We do know his daughter is the toughest athlete of them all! In ten seasons at Manvel, The Tom Landry Award Coach of the Year won 108 of 133 games and made it to 2 State Championship Games. It’s unfinished business with a possible fairy tale ending!

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Joey McGuire - “The People’s Champ” has galvanized the Hub City, Texas Tech, & Red Raider Nation!

Joey McGuire is the “King of the Hub City” and married to the “First Lady” of Lubbock. When they’re not walking around on Red Carpets they are changing a community forever! Texas Tech Football made history beating OU and Texas in the same year and taking down several ranked opponents including Ole Miss in the Texas Bowl. Joey and his star studded staff did that in their first year! Nobody has ever thought that Texas Tech could play defense but Joey. Heck, they sent a SuperStar Linebacker to the first round of the NFL Draft. Joey has been a winner everywhere he’s gone! Cedar Hill HS never won a playoff game before he arrived and his Longhorns became a National Power and a 3-Time State Champ. Joey was a big part of the resurrection at Baylor and learned how to be a Head Coach under Matt Rhule. Joey is in too many Hall of Fames to list here but considers the THSCA Hall of Honor and the Texas HS Hall of Fame as his most prized salutes! Often, Joey says he’s a Texas High School coach that just so happens to coach college football. His relationships with the Texas High School Coaches is unmatched as he recruited the fastest class in America! He should pick our lottery numbers...because his predictions always come true! Joey predicted he would be on the cover of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine, take a school to a Title that never won a playoff game, beat Katy 2 times, all roads lead thru Lubbock, and Tech would play defense. All of that happened!

Texas Tech is “his” Holy Grail and a place he wants to coach forever! It’s hard to find a better human being and more inspirational guy...one conversation with him and you will run through a wall!

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Lexi Tuite & Alexander Adams - Celina goes Back2Back! The Perfect ending to the Perfect season!

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The Celina Lady Bobcats light the water tower Orange in a football tradition rich little town. Wire-to-Wire #1 with the perfect ending to the perfect season! Lexi Tuite broke more records than Taylor Swift in the State Championship Final with 5 Whopping Goals. With the graduation of the State’s most prolific scorer, Taylor Zdrojewski, Lexi elevated her game to historic fashion.

The Lady Bobcats posted just the 3rd Perfect Season in State History at 29-0! Celina is led by a collection of Super Stars like Lexi, Brielle Buchanan, Makenna Brantley, The Norman Sisters, Madi Vana, Sammy Quiroz, and many more. Coach Alexander Adams looks like a genius with 2 Titles, a 50-Game Win Streak, a 58-1-1 record, capped off by a 29-0 perfect season in just 2 years of leading these talented Lady Bobcats with an enormous target on their backs. The DFW Metroplex continues to dominate State Championship Soccer with 48 of the 59 titles since 1995 and a DFW sweep for the 2nd year in a row.