Over a high school career that spanned three schools, where his game was simultaneously praised, criticized and scoffed at, Jacob Smith had one constant.

KATY — Cinco Ranch used a combination of precise passing and strong outside hitting to play nearly mistake-free on August 16, dismantling a good Spring Branch Memorial team in an impressive sweep, 25-12, 25-18 and 25-18.

Katy High opens this season on a national stage as it will help kick-off the 2019 ESPN High School Football Showcase on Thursday, August 29.

Although the Tompkins girls’ volleyball team battled back after squandering its first two sets to Bridgeland High on Tuesday evening, the Falcons ultimately lost the deciding fifth set, 22-25, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21, 6-15 in a marathon night of back-and-forth play at Tompkins High.

For the first time since 2005, there is not a NCAA Division I Power 5 prospect roaming Katy High’s backfield.

Carson King would go up to the Cinco Ranch campus during late evenings this summer and see the light on in coach Chris Dudley’s office. A friend of King’s told him he went up to campus to workout at 6 a.m. one morning and saw Dudley’s car in the parking lot.

Two of Katy ISD’s stars were selected for the Touchdown Club of Houston’s All-Greater Houston UIL High School Football Preseason Team earlier this month.

TOMBALL — A quartet of runners from Cinco Ranch were the top varsity finishers among Katy-area schools, but duos from Tompkins and Katy High School also earned medals at the season-opening Cypress Cross Country Relays held at Spring Creek Park on August 10.

As the Katy ISD high school football season prepares to start up next week, few players are as eager and ready to go than Bryce Foster.

As a freshman playing on a stacked Seven Lakes team with 11 seniors last season, Casey Batenhorst simply wanted to fit in.