Chris Hudson
Coach Chris Hudson came to Boswell High School as a Spanish and English teacher in 1996. He had just graduated from a theological seminary in Fort Worth and was serving as pastor of a tiny church that did not have the financial means to fully support a minister, and he needed a job to provide for his family. Chris had served in teaching roles with children and youth ever since high school, and his parents were both teachers, so he figured it would be a good fit. Coach Hudson took over the swim program in 1998 after a previous coach quit, and he thought he’d step in and keep the program alive until a new coach was hired. He is now entering his 25th year as head coach, and coaching the swim team has become the most enjoyable and fulfilling aspect of his job. He has led swimmers to the state meet 4 times (2000, 2001, 2002, and 2018) and has been named Boys or Girls District Coach of the Year three times since 2012. Boswell Boys and Girls Swimmers have finished 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in district every year since 2006. Aside from four years (2002-2006) that he spent in Honduras with his family as a missionary, he has been firmly attached to Boswell High School for over 20 years, and he will "bleed blue and gold until he dies". Chris loves working with young people, and few things in life make him happier than encouraging teenagers to succeed in life, academics, and athletics.
Coach Hudson is originally from a small town in south Texas between Corpus Christi and Mexico called Kingsville (home and headquarters of the King Ranch). His parents taught at a private international boarding school outside of Kingsville, and they lived on campus, so from age four, he had year-round access to a gymnasium and a 25-yard pool. He took full advantage of both, and he had a love for all sports from an early age. He played soccer, baseball, basketball, and football through middle school. By high school, he came to focus primarily on basketball. Chris did run track (100 meters and high jump) and play two years of tennis in high school, but basketball was his greatest athletic passion. His Bachelor’s degree is in English and Spanish from Texas A & M-Kingsville, where he participated fervently in intramural basketball and swimming. He came to Fort Worth in 1992 to study at Southwestern Seminary, where he received a Master of Divinity in Biblical Languages in December 1995.
Coach Hudson is married to the former Monica Flores, a nurse practitioner for a family practice clinic in southwest Fort Worth, and they have two boys in the school district, one at Boswell and one at Creekview. Their daughter is a Boswell graduate and a sophomore at Texas Tech. Outside of teaching and coaching, his passions are playing the piano and guitar, reading, traveling, hiking, swimming, ornithology (yes, he's a bird watcher!), and spending time with his family.
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