Wade Wilson, Texas Lutheran University, 2015 Softball Coach of the Year

Wade Wilson, Texas Lutheran University, 2015 Softball Coach of the Year

WADE WILSON OF TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY was named SCAC Softball Coach of the Year for the 2015 season.

In his fourth season at Texas Lutheran, Wilson led the Bulldogs to the SCAC regular season title with a perfect 23-0 conference mark – giving the program a dominant 44-1 record in conference competition in two seasons as a member of the SCAC. After winning the SCAC championship a year ago, this season's squad outscored its conference competition 182-28 while batting .389 and notching a 0.78 ERA. The Bulldogs recently established a new SCAC record for consecutive conference wins when the team swept Centenary in a four-game set to end the 2015 regular season. Dating to last season, TLU has won 34 straight conference games – breaking the old mark established by DePauw University who won 33 straight in conference from 2007 to 2010. In his four years at the helm of the Bulldog program and heading into this weekend's conference tournament, Wilson has amassed an 118-42 overall record (.738) and has over 500 career wins counting his nine seasons as a head coach at Brenham High School in Brenham, Texas. This is the third consecutive conference Coach-of-the-Year honor for Wilson as he was honored as ASC Coach-of-the-Year in 2013 before earning the award the last two seasons in the SCAC.

Wilson garnered five votes from his peers for SCAC Coach-of-the-Year, while Beth Krysiak of the University of Dallas received the remaining two votes.