Lexes Wilson enters her third season as an assistant coach with UT Permian Basin softball.
Wilson has helped flip the Falcons who were on pace for their best season ever before the COVID-19 outbreak. The Falcons finished with a .500 record for the first time in program history with a 15-15 record. The team was just four wins short of breaking the program record with 24 games to go.
The team finished fourth in the country and led the Lone Star Conference with 237. They also led the LSC with 39 doubles and nearly doubled the amount of home runs and triples over the 2019 season. The Falcons were on pace to score 257 runs and shatter the record of 213.
Pitching was a major key in the team’s 2020 turn around. In the final game of the season, freshman Abby Cousins threw the first perfect game in program history against the University of the Southwest. The staff tied for second in the LSC with six shutouts which ranked them 18th in the country.
She came to UTPB after serving as a graduate assistant at Delta State in Cleveland, Miss. the past two seasons, graduating with her Master’s in Human Sports Performance.
Wilson graduated from University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Ala., where she received her Bachelors of Science in psychology with honors. She also received the 2016 Psychology Faculty Recognition Award.
She completed her collegiate softball career playing for the Falcons where she was a 2015 NFCA All-American Scholar Athlete and a 2016 All-Academic Team selection. She was a recipient of the 2015 and 2016 NCAA Division II Athletics Directors Association (D2ADA) Academic Achievement Awards. She was also named a Silver Scholar on the Peach Belt Conference Presidential Honor Roll in 2015.
Wilson began her collegiate softball career at Grayson College in Denison, Texas, where she attended from 2012-2014. She was selected to the 2014-2015 NJCAA Region V All-Academic Team.
Wilson served as president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (2014-16), was inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success in 2016, and received Montevallo's 2016 DeWayne Peevy Spirit Award.
She received her Master's degree in sport and human performance from Delta State.
