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.

Tompkins senior running back R.J. Smith and Taylor senior defensive back Braden Hay were named to the team. Smith was one of four running backs named. Hay was one of six defensive backs.

St. John XXIII senior lineman Jake Baudler was named to the All-Greater Houston Private High School Football Preseason Team.

All three were recognized at the Touchdown Club of Houston dinner on August 14.

Smith rushed for 2,391 and 30 touchdowns for 10-3 Tompkins last season. He also caught 14 passes for 192 yards and three more TDs.

Hay averaged 7.3 tackles per game for 6-6 Taylor last season and had two tackles for a loss. He also totaled three interceptions, 2.0 sacks, seven pass deflections, two fumble recoveries and two blocked punts.

Baudler was a central piece of St. John XXIII’s TAPPS Division V state championship last season.

The Touchdown Club is the Houston chapter of the National Football Foundation. Founded in 1947 with leadership from General Douglas MacArthur, legendary Army coach Earl “Red” Blaik and immortal journalist Grantland Rice, the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, a non-profit educational organization, organizes programs designed to use the importance of high school football in developing scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement for young people.