Houston Texans Pay Visit To Kingwood High School Players

HUMBLE, TX — Students at Kingwood High School received a special surprise when two members of the Houston Texans dropped by to donate some much needed football gear for the Kingwood High School Mustangs during a practice at Turner Stadium Tuesday afternoon.

Texans nose tackle D.J Reader and center Nick Martin, accompanied by two Houston Texans cheerleaders, donated 300 sets of football cleats and 100 footballs to replace equipment lost when Kingwood High School was flooded during Hurricane Harvey. (Want to get daily news updates and other events going on in your area? Sign up for the free Humble-Kingwood Patch morning newsletter.)

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"It's an exciting moment for them, but once they kind of sit back and reflect a little bit, we'll talk about how much we appreciate the things that people have given to us and donated to try to help us recover and get these guys back on the field," Kingwood football coach and athletic coordinator Barry Campbell told the Houston Chronicle .

Reader and Martin signed autographs for Kingwood High School football players and students as they broke practice.

Kingwood High School students and staff were displaced during Hurricane Harvey when flood water from the San Jacinto River poured into the school, flooding the campus with as much as five feet of water.

Much of that water pushed raw sewage from a nearby treatment plant into the school, which caused damage to the interior of the school, as well as destroying computers, band equipment, books, and destroying athletic equipment, KPRC reported.

Kingwood High School students began attending classes at Summer Creek High School near Generation Park on Sept. 11.

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