Heath Hamrick on Texas Coaching, Small-Town Community, and Writing “Play Like He Would”

Hill Country Authors Podcast · Aug 6, 2026 · 29m

Welcome to a new season of the award-winning Hill Country Authors Podcast, sponsored by Stoney Creek Publishing. In this podcast, Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with authors who live in and write about the Texas Hill Country. Tom Fox interviews Texas educator and longtime coach Heath Hamrick about his books, including Worse Than You Think and Play Like He Would.

Hamrick describes growing up in a multigenerational Texas coaching family and moving across the state and explains how Play Like He Would was shaped by witnessing his father coach and by a small-town tragedy in which a player…