Kates Brothers’ Historic Accomplishment

Dave Campbell’s Texas Football online magazine recently did a feature story detailing how the Kates brothers are believed to be the first trio to ever hold Texas high school football head coaching jobs at the same time. Left to right is Ged, Will and Matt Kates. Ged is the head coach at 5A Richland High School in Fort Worth. Will was a longtime La Grange assistant head coach before being hired as the head coach at 3A Merkel (outside Abilene) this spring. Matt heads into his 12th year as head coach at La Grange this season. He has held the La Grange head coaching position longer than anyone in school history.