Celebrities and fashion heavyweights gathered at the American Museum of Natural History for the Council of Fashion Designers of America annual ceremony on Monday.

“It’s nothing we aren’t used to,” HISD athletic director Andre Walker said. “We have done this many times before in HISD, but it’s just been different teams. Now it’s Booker T. Washington’s turn. The district really feeds off what basketball is doing right now, and I hope to be making this drive to State in a few months with soccer.”

Houston ISD athletic director Andre Walker had a brainstorm on a Sunday a few months ago.

The powers of the Texas High School Coaches Association made a stop in Houston, bringing the F.A.S.T. Hosted by HISD athletic director Andre Walker at Delmar Fieldhouse, Executive Director Joe Martin, and Assistant Executive Director Glen West were on hand to relay the initiative. The F.A.S.T. Clinic is to teach coaches the proper techniques to instruct their players to lead with their shoulders and not their heads. VYPE's Matt Malatesta caught up with Martin and West to get their thoughts on the THSCA's initiative.

In the late 1960s and 1970s, Tusa saw Houston high schools through integration and Title IX. "He wrote me a handwritten letter when I got this job to just congratulate me," HISD AD Andre Walker said. Under his direction, he saw Yates win a state football title in 1985 and Wheatley basketball win three-straight state titles. Sharpstown won a baseball state title in 1982 and Yates girls hoops won state in 1983. Tusa was at the epicenter of HISD’s heyday and laid the foundation for high school sports in Houston and in the Lone Star State.