WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Riley Zayas]

After one of the best seasons in program history, McMurry will be in search of its next head coach. Drew Long has accepted the head coaching role at Houston Christian, a D1 program in the Southland Conference. Congratulations to him on the opportunity!

https://hcuhuskies.com/news/2025/4/2/womens-basketball-wbb-hcu-hires-drew-long-as-head-womens-basketball-coach.aspx

[Ron Boerger]

Big loss for McM and a great opportunity for Coach Long.

[Ralph Turner]

https://mcmurrysports.com/news/2025/4/24/general-laura-lange-named-new-womens-basketball-head-coach.aspx

Hopefully, Coach Lange can continue the success. As a West Texan, hopefully she will be happy to be a great success at McMurry and not leave for other pastures.

[Ron Boerger]

Speaking of McM, Kylie Flippin also runs track for McMurry and in this weekend's SCAC championships won the women's high jump, the only athlete to clear 1.57m (on her first try).  She was also a respectable 9th in the SCAC women's long jump (.05m from scoring points in 8th) and 11th in the triple jump (.14m out of the points). 

McMurry is doing what McMurry does in the sport, leading the men's race by a decent margin and the women's by a narrow one, and looking at the entry list has a shot at pulling the double.   They almost assuredly will win the men's championship but will have to maximize their points on the distaff side.   Edit:  I forgot that Colorado brings basically a dozen women for each of the distance races from their XC team and rolls up the points basically in those events, so that will make matters much more difficult.

[jekelish]

Speaking of McM, Kylie Flippin also runs track for McMurry and in this weekend's SCAC championships won the women's high jump, the only athlete to clear 1.57m (on her first try).  She was also a respectable 9th in the SCAC women's long jump (.05m from scoring points in 8th) and 11th in the triple jump (.14m out of the points). 

McMurry is doing what McMurry does in the sport, leading the men's race by a decent margin and the women's by a narrow one, and looking at the entry list has a shot at pulling the double.   They almost assuredly will win the men's championship but will have to maximize their points on the distaff side.   Edit:  I forgot that Colorado brings basically a dozen women for each of the distance races from their XC team and rolls up the points basically in those events, so that will make matters much more difficult.

Talking about track, this is one of those times I kinda wish Austin College still had that as a sport simply because they've got a freshman on the baseball team who ran a 10.39 100m in high school. (Not surprisingly, he's leading the conference in stolen bases this year.)

[Pat Coleman]

Baseball and track overlap quite a lot.