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Introducing Jonah Williams, Texas' Tornado
Jonah Williams is the Texas Longhorns next great two-sport star as he showed in his first starts for the baseball team. Before he got to Austin he was a five-star athlete from Galveston Ball.
This is the feature story from the 2024-25 Dave Campbell's Texas Football Rising Magazine highlighting two-sport sensation Jonah Williams of Galveston Ball.
GALVESTON - - Galveston borrows its name from the Spanish Colonial governor Bernardo de Galvez, who ordered the first survey of the Texas Gulf Coast in 1786. His surveyor, Jose de Evia, named Galveston Bay in his honor, and that later led to the name of the island. The first known inhabitants of the area were the Karankawa Indians in the 1500s, who temporary enslaved Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca after his 1528 shipwreck.
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