Kevin Baker Position: Assistant Coach Experience: Third Season

Kevin Baker enters his third season on the Lady Buff basketball staff. He joined the WTAMU staff prior to the 2007-08 season, having brought 10 years of head coaching experience to the position. He has enjoyed coaching stints in Central and East Texas prior to joining the Lady Buff staff.

Baker came to WTAMU after several stints as a head coach at the high school level, where he produced a 222- 101 (.687) record in 10 seasons. Most recently, Baker was at the helm of the Copperas Cove High School girls program where he compiled an impressive 103-35 (.746) record in four seasons coaching the Lady Dawgs, including a 32-3 mark during his last season (2006-07) which saw the team make a Regional semifinal appearance.

Prior to his time at Copperas Cove, Baker spent three seasons at Nacagdoches High School where he took a 5-22 team during his first season to a 30-4 district championship squad just three years later, netting him District 12-4A Coach of the Year honors. From 1998-2000, Baker served as the head women's basketball coach and Girls Athletics Director at Palastine High School in Palastine, Texas.

Baker got his first head coaching position in 1997-98, taking the reigns of the Commerce High School girls program for one season after spending time as an assistant coach at Princeton High School and Hudson High School. Baker earned two degrees from Stephen F. Austin University, receiving his bachelor's degree in Kinesiology in 1994 before returning there to earn his master's in 1996.