kate club nick, let his Austin Westlake apparatus of the state semifinals but found his
team trailing North shore high school, the winner will advance to the state championship
Game four chance to cement their names in texas high school football history. That's just
kind of my mentality. I wake up on friday morning knowing it's game day, it's it's time
to go have fun. I've really never dealt with stress and especially with the game of football
really in the game of football. Like I've just , I love it in kate sophomore season. He was a
backup for Austin Westlake, they won the six A division two state championship in 2019. Prior
to that, the schools only other state title came in 1996. Led by young quarterback by the
name of Drew Brees. What did you set out to do after your first championship Kate, do
something. Westlake had never done before and that was a backpack. Six championship.
I've learned a lot just in my high school journey, um, of being a backup, there's,
there's not a lot of top kind of quarterbacks around the country that, that backed up for a
year and just to be able to do that I'm really thankful for because I get to learn a lot and
learn how to everyday matters. Every rep and every single rep and every single play matters
in practice. Practice is everything you prove how good you are in practice, not games. Club
Nichols, right practices everything practices where he meant the friend and teammate who
changed his life. Jackson Coker was a senior at Austin Wesley. When Kate Club Nick was a
sophomore, he led them to their 2019 championship before Cade wanted in 2020 whether
you're starting quarterback or the fourth string kicker, he just was everybody's best
friend and he just knew how to bring the team together. I remember he got hurt and then came
back and our first touchdown we were scored was was against Lake Travis together and um
I'll never forget that play we gave we gave each other the biggest hug after
I'm gonna step on the field on friday and he's not going to be there and it's gonna be, you
know, it's gonna be sad. But I know as soon as I step on the field and be thinking about him.
No state creates more NFL players in texas. A list that includes Patrick, Mahomes, Kyler
Murray and baker Mayfield and of course Drew Brees. What did you learn from Drew Brees when
you spoke to him? There's not a lot of just, I mean quarterbacks out there. Like if you think
of, if you think of the end of others, not a bunch of selfish just kind of rude
players that play quarterback in the NFL. I mean, I'm not, I don't, I don't personally know
anybody, but I mean there's just there's a lot of just kind of rude teammates and quarterbacks
that play high school football. I think the higher up you go, the more those guys kind of
filter out because their mentality of I want what I want on the team instead of what I want
for my team coaches don't like, you know, and that just kind of flushes out. Do you think
football has changed in any way? I would say just like the speed of the game has, has really
picked up and when it comes to our pos and play actions and stuff like that, I have really
picked up your hearing everybody talk about. It's it's kind of moving away from true under
under the center type of stuff. It's moving a little bit more away from the patriots and a
little bit more to the cheese. I'm not trying to be patrick Mahomes, but it's just little
things like stuff, I would never even think about it. It's just that kind of reputation and,
and little things like short routes where I just, you know, I don't need to get full kind
of motion in there. You know, sometimes it's just a little spit out real quick and just
being accurate and kind of practicing that. Who's your favorite superhero Alright man, I
don't know why, but it's pretty cool. It doesn't really have any super powers, but he's,
he's, he's just a cool dude and what are your superpowers on the field, decision making,
knowing exactly where they put it every single time, perfect accuracy and anticipation. I feel
like if you have all three of those things, it's kind of hard to. I mean that's, that's
kind of, It was kind of tough to beat and who's the cave under this selfless and that's
kind of a selfish word to say. But I think I just kind of learned from Jackson and other
people that no matter how good I am and stuff, it's, it's not about me, there's 10 other dudes
on the field with me. I'm not going to be very good. If they're not very good. It's all about
raising everybody else up. You get too much love wherever you win. You get too much hate
winter blues and it's, it's all about spreading love to as many people as you can.
Like I like having fun and not stupid fun, but just, I don't like being bored. I like just
living and making memories with my friends and with my family and enjoying life.
Right? Mm hmm.
Yeah. Mhm. Mhm