Weldon Drew was a standout basketball player at Phillis Wheatley High School and Fisk University. He led Kashmere to Co State Championship in 1960 with Joe Lackey and Mighty Joe Young whom both ranked in the top ten players of the 60’s in the HISD. Coach Drew team won back to back state titles in 1974 & 1975 and rode a 78 games winning streak to the No.1 ranked team in the nation. He was voted ESPN National Coach of the Year in 1975. Accepted assistant coaching job at New Mexico State, later to become the head coach.  He also coached at Oklahoma State and Langston University.