The Houston Hawks started their first season in 2015. Started by a teacher who had been volunteer coaching for nine years, the Hawks have completed two five year teams from 10u-14u. The first team, 2015 - 2020, landed almost 80% of its players on local high school teams and currently has five playing in college. The second team has just ended and will have their 8th grade summer baseball tryouts next month. We are starting to look for our third team to start up this fall. This one will be a little different in that it will only be a three year program, through 12u, where we will then find an appropriate place for each player for their 13 and 14u seasons.
The Hawks have been a group of kids and parents that have worked together from August of 2015 until the spring of 2025. We are not looking for team hoppers who look for the next best thing. Too many times we have seen kids who jump teams to try and make the highest level or best team that they can and then end up not improving because they get different coaching every year or six months, basically starting over every season. We will win baseball games and we will coach winning teams, but we want to do it by having our kids improve every day and making the team better that way - not by picking up better kids and getting rid of the bottom kids every season. Kids and parents know that once they make the team, they are on the team forever or until they decide that they no longer want to play with us. Once they make the team, we will not cut kids or make them tryout again because we found someone better. Our model is to try and do what we did with the second team... we lost our first 27 games in 10u and then two years later won the silver bracket at Ripken National Tournament in Aberdeen, MD (In a very exciting come back and walk-off).
The Hawks are coached by a teacher in Klein ISD who has been coaching select baseball in Houston for nineteen years. He has coached four groups of players from metro to 14U AAA over that time. The first group was from 2006 - 2009, This group put seven players on high school teams and had two play four years in college and one has been playing professionally 7 years. The second group was from 2010 until the spring of 2015. Eleven of our players from that team made their high school team and two of them are now finished playing college baseball. The third group started high school in the fall of 2020 and had 25 of 28 players that spent at least a year with us make their high school team and five of those are now playing baseball in college. The fourth group is about to end their time in 8th grade and have their tryout next January. We will see how they do.