BY DENNIS SILVA II | email: densilva2@gmail.com

Bubba Fife’s respect for Gary Joseph goes all the way back to the early 1980s, when Fife worked with Joseph’s father, Eddie, on the Texas High School Coaches Association board of directors.

Fife considered Eddie a mentor, and in the years that followed, specifically 22 spent as a coach and administrator in Katy ISD, it did not take long for his admiration for Gary, a football coach at Katy High since the early 1980s, to foster as well.

“Coach Joseph is one of the finest coaches, but also a fine, quality human being,” Fife said. “He’s a fine father, a fine husband and a great leader. He’s a close friend and I respect him so much.”

It’s only central casting, then, that Fife and Gary Joseph will be enshrined together this summer into the Texas High School Coaches Association’s Hall of Honor. Fife and Joseph are two of five inductees that will be acknowledged at the Hall of Honor Banquet at 7 p.m. on July 20 in Houston.

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BY DENNIS SILVA II | email: densilva2@gmail.com

Mere hours after winning his third consecutive Class 6A state wrestling championship, Katy High senior Daniel Manibog was in a car, driving with his father Dean and Katy coach Vinnie Lowe on 1 ½-hours of sleep to go watch the duel between No. 2 Oklahoma State and No. 3 Iowa in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Manibog rode an emotional high after becoming the 14^th wrestler in UIL history to win three state titles and the second at Katy, following James Aston (2003-2005).

“I never met him,” Manibog said of Aston, “but Coach Lowe coached him before I got here, so he would tell me about him. James got fifth (at state) as a freshman, too, so ever since I did that myself, I wanted to match what he did.”

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