Luster Goodwin is currently an Assistant Principal at Sugar Land Middle School in Fort Bend ISD. He has always been a driven person, and his road to success started when he would play basketball consistently everyday to enhance his skills. Luster’s dedication to the sport helped him make the Kashmere High School basketball team, on which he played from 1979-1981, under the leadership of Coach Frankie Brazos and the Asst. Danny Thomas. From 1979 until 1981, the Kashmere basketball team won several Championships which included the District Championship, the City Championship, and the State Championship. After High School Luster (also known as Pony) received a full athletic scholarship to University of Texas at El Paso. He continued to play basketball from 1981- 1985. In college, his coach was the famous Don Haskins. Aside from being a great leader to the entire athletic department, Don Haskins was famous for starting five black players in 1966 and winning the national championship by defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 72-65, also for earning a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame and for having a movie made about him called “Glory Road”. During the first college basketball game that Luster played in, he made his first six shots from the field. In 1983, after playing on the team for two years, Luster started as a shooting guard and also leaded the team in scoring. During his time on the team, they came in second in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and tied with Brigham Young University for the Conference Championship. During his last year on the team, Luster continued to start as the shooting guard, and he had the second leading score on the team.
Luster’s successes were not only in the sport’s arena, but also in his academic endeavors. He has a Bachelor Degree in Business Marketing from University of Texas at El Paso and a Master’s Degree in Education Administration from Prairie View A & M University. He utilized these degrees by working for fourteen years as an administrator in Fort bend ISD, for twelve years as an assistant college coach, and for eight years with the famous Don Haskins. During his free time, Luster is an active member of Lilly Grove Baptist Church and plays golf.
No man is an island, and Luster in no exception to this rule. He owes his success to his parents: Luster Ceasar and Edna Goodwin; his two sisters: Elneta Brown and Cheryl Harrison; his coaches: Don Haskins, Tim Floyd, Frankie Brazos, Danny Thomas, Johnny B. and Hollis Fielder; and his mentors: Dan and Susan Drewry, Tim Floyd, and Alonzo Reynolds III. Luster also wants to thank God for his success because without him none of these accomplishments would be possible.