2012 Men’s Basketball
Bruce Weber
(2005 National coach of the year, 2005 NCAA Runner-up at Illinois. Won conference championships in Big 10 and MVC)
Results
- 2018 Elite Eight, just K-State’s 2nd such finish since 1988
- 100% Graduate Success Rate (GSR)
- Four NCAA bids in 6 years
- 2017 Senior Wesley Iwundu earns degree & becomes K-State’s 1st four year NBA draft pick since 1992, and just 3rd overall in that span
- 2013 Big 12 coach of year
- 2013 Big 12 co-champions – K-State’s first conference title in 36 years
- 438 career wins // 125 at K-State – K-State’s 4th alltime wins leader of 24 coaches in program history
2014 Women’s Basketball
Jeff Mittie
(previous – over 400 wins and multiple conference titles and coach of year awards at TCU and Arkansas State)
Results
- 8-win improvement in first year
- 2015 WNIT
- 2016 NCAA 2nd round
- 2017 NCAA sub-regional host and 2nd round
- 2018 WNIT
2014 Women’s Tennis
Danielle Steinberg
(2014 Southland coach of the year and All-Louisiana coach of the year at McNeese State and former academic All America as a player at Arizona)
Results
- 2018 – first program NCAA bid since 2003, just fourth in program history
- Maria Linares was named 2018 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
2015 Men’s Golf
Grant Robbins
(15 year head coaching veteran & Memphis Hall of Famer, multiple NCAA bids and Coach of year in 2 conferences)
Highlight Result
- 2018 – Jeremy Gandon, shares Big 12 Medalist honors, K-State’s first conference championship of any kind in men’s golf since 1951
2017 Tennessee Men’s Tennis
Chris Woodruff
(1993 NCAA singles champion, retired professional and veteran assistant coach)
First Season Results
- 2018 – Tennessee improves win total by 8 matches to 21-9, the most Vol victories since 2013
- Team advanced to NCAA 2nd round after returning to the tournament for the first time since 2015
2017 Tennessee Baseball
Tony Vitello
(Veteran SEC & Big 12 assistant)
First Year Results
- 2018 SEC record of 11-15 as of May 13 already eclipse’s last year’s record of 7-21
- 3 game sweep of Alabama (who also hired new coach in 2017)
- Has #6 ranked recruiting class in the country
- On pace to earn first SEC tournament berth since 2015