Fort Bend Texans

Welcome to the Fort Bend Texans! We appreciate your interest in our program. Please feel free to contact us for more information about our program or with your comments and suggestions.

Why the Texans?

The Texans were started for some very specific reasons, and we work diligently to stick to our mission:

Improve the opportunities for players to enjoy youth and High School athletics in a true player development atmosphere, delivered by Coaches with direct game knowledge and experience (professional, collegiate, significant high school).
Bring the long established and very successful Instructional League concepts used in professional baseball to the high school "select" level. A few simple things (see below) can be very effective and make the experience more enjoyable for the players.
Emphasize a few important personnel concepts: players taking personal responsibility for their own participation and development, taking an organized approach, being realistic about your strengths and weakness and finding a way to contribute, and maintaining a temperate and positive attitude about your participation. The same concepts young men need to learn in life.

Yes, we are strong on philosophies. We are able to attract coaches who have participated in baseball at a high level to our program because of what we are trying to do, not because what everyone else is trying to do in youth sports is so attractive.

What are we running away from?

"Daddyball", "parent youth sports babysitting", game stress other than the game situation, focus on achievement being measured by a lucky hit, a bad call, or poor sportsmanship. Note these are the main reasons in every survey as to why players quit playing and coaches quit coaching.

We work to win but don't mind losing "select" baseball games. We often discuss our success in terms of what our players later do outside of our program (e.g. success with their high school team, college participation and scholarships, demonstrating a skill they desperately needed). Work to get good and enjoy the game.