Sam Houston State head coach Bob Brock will retire after the 2018 season, the school announced on Tuesday.
Brock will enter his seventeenth season with the Bearkats in 2018 and is the program’s all-time winningest coach, having earned 407 wins at the program’s helm. He was named the Southland Conference’s Coach of the Year in 2005 and led the Bearkats to the NCAA tournament in 2007.
Formerly the head coach at Baylor and Texas A&M, Brock owns three national championships from his tenure with the A&M Aggies, coming in 1982, ’83, and ’87. He also served as an assistant coach at Tennessee at the turn of the century and was a head coach in the Women’s Professional Fastpitch League in the late 1990s.
The Bearkats, under Brock’s leadership, have reached the Southland conference tournament in eight of the past eleven seasons and have played in the tournament final on four occasions, winning once. In 2017, the Bearkats earned the conference’s #4 overall seed.
One of the top ten winningest active head coaches, Brock was inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame in 2016.
