Game announcer longtime Katy Tigers fan

Bill Haskett steps into the press box at Rhodes Stadium in Katy with an ample supply of water and an official Katy High School football team roster. Haskett, a lifelong Katy resident and graduate of the KHS class of 1961, has been announcing the team's home football games for 15 years, yet said his love for the sport spans deep into his childhood years when the town consisted of nothing more than rice fields and a few select subdivisions. Haskett, now director of community education and special projects for Katy ISD, said he grew up on a farm two miles near the present site of the Katy Mills mall and remembers attending football games when the KHS still competed under the Class A ranking. Haskett, who played the cornet in the KHS band, said announcing the football games helps him keep the traditions of the school constant amid the continued growth of the community. Since leaving high school, Haskett has spent more than 45 years working in the field of education and even worked with some of his former teachers and taught children of fellow classmates.