Most Challenging, Most Rewarding

[Great White Buffalo]

Written by Jon Mark Beilue Michael McBroom

• Women's track won the Lone Star Conference and finished third in the nation.
• Baseball went 33-9 and to the South Central Regional finals.
• In a delayed spring schedule, men's soccer won the LSC regular season and conference tournament and finished No. 6 in the nation.
• Men's cross country won its eighth consecutive LSC crown and was third in the Division II national invite.

Jake Krolick, whose men won their eighth conference title and fourth in a row with him as coach. "We have the right people in charge who give us the resources and let us do our job. They give us as much as they can to help us get the best kids and then it's up to us after that."

About $100 million has been poured into facilities over the last 20 years, and the athletic budget, McBroom said, is in "good shape." Those are two key factors in a winning program, and important in attracting quality coaches.

With the exception of soccer coach Butch Lauffer, who has been at WT for 30 years, and baseball coach Matt Vanderburg's 13 seasons, none of the coaches in the 14 sports for men and women have been with their programs longer than men's basketball coach Tom Brown's seven seasons.

In early June, Josh ProckKendra Potts) and we all had to learn to get better in what we do as far as managing people due to COVID," McBroom said. "We're much better in what we do now and really there's not anything we can't take on. We all learned to hit curveballs this year.

"From our ability to lead and direct people and adjust on the fly, things are better for us from a human standpoint that can't be measured in dollars, cents or trophies."


It's good to be a Buffalo.