West Texas A&M University head women's basketball coach Bob Schneider enters his 41st year as a head coach and is closing in on a milestone that few coaches reach and some can only dream about, the 1,000th career victory. Schneider enters this season with 971 all-time wins as a head coach, with a career all-time record of 971-274 (.780). He has established the Lady Buff program as one of the best in NCAA Division II. Schneider joined the IKON Women's Basketball Coaches Association "900 Victory Club" three seasons ago with more than 900 wins as a head coach in high school and college women's basketball. With a record of 511-144 (.780) in 22 years entering the 2003-04 season, Schneider has pushed the WTAMU women's basketball program into the national spotlight. His Lady Buffs have been ranked in the upper echelon for the majority of the past 15 years with a 409-100 (.804) record since joining the NCAA Division II ranks in 1986. Schneider has guided the Lady Buffs to 16 seasons of 20-plus wins. Overall, he has just two losing seasons in 40 years of coaching. Schneider was named the 1997 Women's Basketball Coaches Association's NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. Schneider earned the LSC Coach of the Year honor in 1998-99 for the fifth time. He has led WTAMU to eight LSC titles in 13 years in the league. WTAMU reached post-season competition for eight straight years starting in 1985 (two National Women's Invitational Tournament appearances) and has made the playoffs in 14 of the last 18 years. He had a successful coaching career in the prep ranks before arriving at WTAMU in 1981. He began coaching at his hometown of Darrouzett, Texas, in 1958. Schneider then went to Clayton, N.M., where he coached football and track, before moving on to McLean, Texas, , where he spent one year coaching football and sub-varsity basketball, then becoming head coach for two year. Schneider landed the position as head girls basketball coach at Canyon High School in 1966. The Canyon girls won the state title in 1969 under his guidance. The Lady Eagles earned state tournament berths 10 straight years, winning the state title five times and being runner-up five times. Schneider's overall record at Canyon High School was 350-59. In 1978, his final season at the high school level, his Canyon team was the only undefeated girls team in Texas. As a result, he was selected Coach of the Year by the Texas High School Girls Coaches Association. Schneider was inducted into the Texas Girls Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame in May 1997. Entering this season, Schneider ranks third among active Division II coaches in victories with 560, and ranks ninth with a winning percentage of .755. Schneider and his wife Barbara have three children. Brandon is the head women's basketball coach at Emporia State, Brett is the Associate Head Coach with the Lady Buffs and has completed his advanced degree, and Brooke is a former Lady Buff letter winner who has graduated from WTAMU and is now employed at the Panhandle Plains Student Loan Center in Canyon.

Bob Schneider at WTAMU Year Record 1981-82 17-12 1982-83 15-12 1983-84 20-8 OCAC runner up 1984-85 26-6 OCAC champion, 6th in NWIT 1985-86 26-5 NWIT consolation champions 1986-87 27-4 LSC champions, NCAA quarters 1987-88 33-1 LSC champions, NCAA runner up 1988-89 26-3 LSC champs, NCAA regional runner up 1989-90 30-2 LSC champs, NCAA regional runner up 1990-91 30-2 LSC champs, NCAA regional runner up 1991-92 24-6 NCAA regional runner up 1992-93 18-8 1993-94 19-8 1994-95 25-5 LSC champs, NCAA regional semis 1995-96 28-3 LSC co-champs, NCAA regional finals 1996-97 29-2 LSC champions, NCAA quarters 1997-98 20-8 1998-99 22-11 LSC South co-champ, NCAA regional semis 1999-00 23-7 Regional Quarterfinalist, LSC Tour. Finalist 2000-01 18-9 2001-02 15-12 2002-03 20-10