The Tomball High School 2022 baseball team comprised a group of worthy young men with many talents and admirable attributes, including their teammate and dear friend Waylon Collins. Tragically, nearly two years ago, Waylon, his grandfather, his two brothers, and cousin were killed by an escaped convict at their family ranch in Centerville, TX. This horrific incident, one of the deadliest prison breaks in Texas history, devastated their family and our entire community.

In the wake of this tragedy, these young men have vowed to honor their teammate #8 and the other members of the Collins family by ensuring that good triumphs over darkness. As Tomball Baseball Moms and Dads, we share this commitment along with community leaders and companies who have joined our cause. As such, we are establishing a foundation (formal launch coming soon) to endow a scholarship and build a memorial at the baseball field, the site where the Tomball Community gathered after the tragedy.

To realize this vision, we are asking for your commitment to try to make more good than evil come from this and other senseless tragedies that impact children. Our scholarship will seek to provide kids with educational support who have been impacted by similar tragedies in their youth, such as the Uvalde Elementary school shooting, which happened within weeks of the Collins family tragedy, or more recently, the Green Elementary bus crash.