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Wes Hunt enters his second season as assistant baseball coach at UT Permian Basin.  Hunt came to the Falcons after two seasons as an assistant at Tarleton State where he graduated with a Master's degree in Kinesiology.

Hunt was instrumental as the Falcons returned to form in 2019, winning 20-plus games for the first time since 2015 and clinched a spot in the Lone Star Conference playoffs for the second consecutive season.  The Falcons won their first Lone Star Conference series, their first LSC road series, and won more in conference series than they lost.  The Falcons beat powerhouse Tarleton for the first time in program history and split with Texas A&M - Kingsville for the first time.  Four Falcons earned All-Conference postseason honors with the help of Coach Hunt.

At Tarleton he worked with the outfielders and was the third base coach his last two years with the Texans, helping Tarleton to a No. 12 national ranking and a No. 6 ranking in the South Central Region poll his first season. In 2018 the Texans won the Lone Star Conference Tournament Championship and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Hunt began coaching as a student at UNLV, where he graduated with his undergraduate degree in 2014. In four seasons at UNLV, three as an undergraduate assistant from 2011-14 and one as a volunteer assistant from 2014-15, he worked with the outfielders and was the Rebel's camp director. UNLV won the Mountain West Conference Championship and finished third in the NCAA Regional in Corvallis, Oregon. Before joining Tarleton, he spent one season as a coach at Ranger College in 2015-16.

Before beginning his coaching career, Hunt helped lead College of Southern Nevada to a Junior College World Series appearance in 2010. In 2011 at Chipola Junior College, he played in 38 games in helping the Indians win the Florida State championship and advance to the JUCO World Series for his second straight season.