West Texas A&M University Women's Basketball

Josh Prock enters his fifth season at the helm of the Lady Buff Basketball program. The 2024-25 campaign saw the Lady Buffs qualify for the program's 29th NCAA Tournament with an overall record of 19-13, advancing to the South Central Regional Semifinals in Denton, Texas. The Lady Buffs made the program's 28th appearance in the NCAA Division II Postseason during the 2022-23 campaign as they went 21-11 overall including a 14-8 mark in Lone Star Conference action. Prock guided WT to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight during his first season in Maroon & White, finishing the campaign with an overall record of 26-11 as WT claimed the LSC Regular Season and Tournament Titles followed by a run to the South Central Regional Championship at the First United Bank Center in Canyon. Prock was introduced as West Texas A&M's head women’s basketball coach on June, 2, 2021. Prock is no stranger to the Lone Star Conference as he spent eight seasons as the head coach at Eastern New Mexico leading the Greyhounds to their only three NCAA Tournament appearances in program history. Over the past four seasons, he accumulated a record of 77-41 including ENMU’s first LSC Championship in program history in 2016-17 where he was named the league’s Coach of the Year. The 2019-20 Greyhounds turned in one of the best season’s in program history, earning its third NCAA Tournament bid in four seasons and posting the second-best winning percentage in the ENMU record book with a 22-9 overall record. Under Prock’s leadership, the Hounds advanced to the LSC Championship Semifinals for the first time since the 1992-93 season. Prock reached a pair of impressive coaching milestones in 2019-20, first by earning his 200th career NCAA victory with a 60-45 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville on Jan. 25 before earning his 100th victory with ENMU with a 70-52 playoff win over Oklahoma Christian on March 3. Prock became just the second ENMU coach to reach the 100-win threshold in program history. The Greyhounds finished the 2018-19 campaign with a 19-11 overall record and a 14-6 mark in Lone Star Conference play while posting an impressive 12-1 record inside Greyhound Arena, setting the best home record in the program’s 45-year history. Three players from last year’s squad took home All-LSC honors highlighted by D2CCA South Central Second Team honoree Treyanna Clay. The 2016-17 Lone Star Coach of the Year followed up the program’s most successful season in decades with another quality campaign during the 2017-18 effort. The Hounds posted an overall record of 16-12, including a 12-8 mark in conference play that earned a fourth-seed in the LSC Championship. Eastern posted a historic season in 2016-17 that saw the program win an LSC Championship and make their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in school history. ENMU recorded its first winning season since 2006-07 and first LSC winning record since 2003-04.  Prior to joining the Division II ranks in 2013, Prock was the head coach at Howard Payne for five seasons posting an impressive record of 108-31 (.770). He was twice named the American Southwest Conference West Division Coach of the Year while coaching two All-Americans, five all-region selections and a pair of ASC Players of the Year. His program was equally impressive in the classroom with 13 Academic All-ASC honorees.  He also spent time at Billy Ryan High School in Denton and was an assistant in Kentucky Wesleyan for two seasons. He began his coaching career in 2001 at the University of Oklahoma as a graduate assistant under head coach Kelvin Sampson. Prock and his wife Angie are the proud parents of three children: Nolan, Jenna and Colton.

Will Sherman enters his fifth season on the sideline for the Lady Buffs, he was named the program's Associate Head Coach in the Summer of 2024. The 2024-25 campaign saw the Lady Buffs qualify for the program's 29th NCAA Tournament with an overall record of 19-13, advancing to the South Central Regional Semifinals in Denton, Texas. The Lady Buffs made the program's 28th appearance in the NCAA Division II Postseason during the 2022-23 campaign as they went 21-11 overall including a 14-8 mark in Lone Star Conference action. WT finished the 20221-22 campaign with an overall record of 26-11 as WT claimed the LSC Regular Season and Tournament Titles followed by a run to the South Central Regional Championship at the First United Bank Center in Canyon. Sherman came to Canyon following two seasons at Lone Star Conference member UT Tyler where he served as the program's top assistant and recruiting coordinator since May of 2019. He was instrumental in the Lady Patriots' transition into NCAA Division II.   Sherman joined UT Tyler after two seasons as Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. While with the War Hawks, he helped guide the team to their best American Southwest Conference West Division finish in more than a decade during the 2017-18 season. In 2018-19, McMurry advanced to the ASC Tournament for the first time since 2008.   The Reno, Nevada native is a 2017 graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno, where he spent five seasons assisting the Wolf Pack Women's Basketball program in various capacities. His duties included assisting in the preparation of scouting reports and practice plans, individual and group workouts, and travel planning.   Sherman has a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Studies and a Master's of Science in Sports Psychology from Capella University.  

Canyon native Shawna Monreal was named an Assistant Coach for Lady Buffs Basketball in May of 2024. Her first season on the sidelines in Canyon saw the Lady Buffs qualify for the program's 29th NCAA Tournament with an overall record of 19-13, advancing to the South Central Regional Semifinals in Denton, Texas. Monreal returned to the Texas Panhandle following seven seasons of prep coaching with stops in Seymour, Shallowater, Lubbock and Frenship. She comes to WT following one season as the assistant girl's basketball and track coach at Frenship High School.   She registered a standout collegiate career at nearby Wayland Baptist where she played 124 career games with 91 starts for the Flying Queens from 2013-2017. Monreal scored 1,100 career points in Plainview as she helped the historic WBU program to 89 victories with four trips to the NAIA Postseason and a Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament Title in 2016 to earn All-American honors.   The 2012 graduate of Canyon High School is no stranger to high-level basketball as she played for legendary head coach Joe Lombard, leading the Lady Eagles to an undefeated 38-0 record in 2011 on their way to a State Championship.