Todd Howey
Todd Howey spent over 20 years as a Texas High School Athletic Director at some of the most athletically successful and diverse school districts in the Sate of Texas. A former Texas Tech All – SWC outfielder and Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer, Todd began his teaching/coaching career in 1989 at Early High School doing the laundry and coaching football, basketball, and baseball. After one year, Todd became the Head Baseball Coach at Howard Payne University and remained there for 5 years, coaching the Yellow Jackets to three conference championships. In 1995, Todd was named the Head Baseball Coach at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas and spent the next 5 seasons with the Buffaloes averaging 33 wins per season and 4 National rankings. In 2000, he left coaching to pursue a career as an Athletic Director, serving in that role for the next 22 years at Canyon ISD, Midland ISD, and San Antonio ISD. Using his experiences as an athlete, coach, parent and school administrator, Todd has published three books covering teamwork, unconditional, leadership, life perspective, and adding value to others.
A Howard Payne graduate, where he is a member of the Athletic Sports Hall of Fame, Todd has deep family ties to the Brownwood community. He received his Master’s Degree from Tarleton State University. You can visit Todd on his website, www.coachhowey.com, to inquire about his books, speaking and teaching opportunities. You can also follow he and his dog ‘Cash’ on Instagram at Coach_and Cash.
Under The Stetson
UNDER THE STETSON: Shine it up shiny
There is a small house that sits on a corner lot on the edge of town that I have been driving by almost daily for a few years. Nothing spectacular about the house, pretty simple
UNDER THE STETSON: Stop Looking For Your Life, Start Creating It
The word CREATE is defined as follows: To cause to come into being, as something that is not made by an ordinary process. To evolve from one’s own thought or imagination, as a work of
UNDER THE STETSON: World Cup
I have become a soccer fan … well, not really. But I have spent more time in front of the television watching the game than ever before. My kids did not grow up playing the
UNDER THE STETSON: Drawing Board
“Well, it’s back to the drawing board.” That was the comment the coach made as he was cleaning off a 4×8 foot dry erase board hanging on his office wall. It was covered with play
UNDER THE STETSON: Rudolph
What I am about to admit to may cost me some street cred and raise a few eyebrows, but I sat on my couch for ninety minutes last night with my dog Cash and watched
UNDER THE STETSON: Gift Giver
I will never forget one Christmas many years ago when my sister and two brothers, along with our spouses, were exchanging and opening gifts. None of us had any kids at the time, today there
UNDER THE STETSON: Good Stuff
Here is a little turkey day info I dug up. The first “Day of Public Thanksgiving” was on Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789. For decades after that, the date and even the month for Thanksgiving moved
UNDER THE STETSON: Love Protects
I’m an Ordained Minister, how about them apples! There is really not much to it. You go online, type in some personal information, pay a small fee and presto! You can marry and bury people
UNDER THE STETSON: Finding Jesus
I spent the better part of an hour last weekend looking for Jesus. I knew he had to be around, because I found his parents Mary and Joseph sitting close by. I called my sister
UNDER THE STETSON: Undertow
There is a line in one of my favorite movies, Shawshank Redemption, where the lead character makes a comment that he only had two choices left in his life, “Get busy living, or get busy
UNDER THE STETSON: Step out of the boat
Peter was doing the unthinkable. He was walking on water! With every step he took, he got closer and closer to his goal. His whole life at that time revolved around Jesus of Nazareth. He
UNDER THE STETSON: Pause
I read an article recently about a high school football coach who was fired at halftime of a game for abusive profanity. Apparently, this was an ongoing problem, and the Athletic Director had enough and
UNDER THE STETSON: Wish
One of the few benefits of growing old is that I have been able to live with much more discernment than in the past. I had discovered that there’s a massive difference between wishing for
UNDER THE STETSON: Standards
Several years ago, when I was serving as an athletic director, I was putting together a Student- Athlete Handbook that covered all the rules and regulations for the school district. I met with my Superintendent
UNDER THE STETSON: Experiences
I had a great experience last weekend. I traveled with two of my sons for a three-day weekend in Chicago. We landed Friday afternoon and stayed smack – dab in the middle of the Windy