A PASSION FOR SOFTBALL
2/1/2023 11:13:00 AM | General, Softball
Baylor’s all-time winningest coach, Moore beginning his 23rd season
By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
Glenn Moore always just figured he would end up being a football coach, and he certainly looks the part.
But his love for softball started at an early age, watching his Daddy pitch for a local team at East Fork Ballpark in Liberty, Mississippi.
"He'd get through milking the cows in the afternoon, and he had a team that he would go pitch for," Glenn said of his dad, Willie "Buddy" Moore, who also worked for the railroad company. "Tournament weekends, Mama would cook fried chicken, and we'd have our picnics. Had some great memories of watching him play. And, of course, I thought he was Mr. Universe."
One day, he saw the opposing pitcher from Baton Rouge, La., warming up, and thought he was maybe throwing it even faster than his dad.
"I remember vividly being worried that there was somebody better than my dad," Glenn said. "I asked my mom, 'Is that man throwing faster than Daddy?' She turned and watched him throw and said, 'Oh, no, he's throwing a baseball. It just looks that way.' And I had a calm come over me, like, 'Daddy's still the best!'''
His passion for softball, stoked in those childhood visits to East Fork Ballpark, eventually led to a coaching path that is fast approaching 1,000 career wins and a 22-year record of 834-425 at Baylor with four trips to the Women's College World Series.
"I personally have had kind of a rekindling of the fire," said Moore, who will begin his 23rd season at Baylor and 26th as a head coach when the Bears play in the UNLV Rebel Kickoff Feb. 10-12 in Las Vegas. "Last year did that. It was a great culture, the team was fun to coach and sponges for learning and knowledge. They made me feel like I could coach again."
At Amite School Center, Glenn was a four-sport standout in football, basketball, baseball and track and was drawing interest from several SEC schools before a knee injury "sent them all away."
In what seemed like a rite of passage for the Moore family, Glenn played football and baseball at Southwest Mississippi Community College in nearby Summit, Miss. While his siblings either played sports, cheered or played in the band at Southwest Mississippi, Glenn would eventually join his grandfather (Earl) and dad (Buddy) in the SMCC Hall of Fame.
"Three generations in the Hall of Fame, so we have some strong ties there," he said.
The next step was Northwestern State University, where Glenn earned a football scholarship. While injuries pretty much derailed his football career, he had two life-defining moments at the school in Natchitoches, La.
Steve Pezant, "who was like a brother to me," went with Glenn to visit a local church in their first semester at Northwestern State. That's where he met his future wife, the former Janice Miller, who won a Southland Conference championship in the high jump for the Lady Demons.
"My buddy, Steve, went with me to church," Glenn said. "And when Janice and her twin sister walked in the door, I turned to Steve and said, 'See that girl right there? I'm going to marry that girl one day.' I've considered myself a prophet ever since. . . . I chased her for nine years, though, but I finally caught her. She slowed down enough."
Moore also got his foot in the door in coaching at Northwestern State, first helping softball coach Rickey McCalister as a volunteer assistant and then as a full-time assistant in his last semester. Doubling as the coliseum manager, "I lived in the back of Prather (Coliseum) and worked with him and his team."
Despite a celebrated fastpitch softball playing career himself that included a stint with pitcher Eddie Feigner and the world-famous "The King and His Court," Moore said he was initially "a little intimidated" by coaching high-caliber female softball players from California.
"But it didn't take me long to realize that I had things I could help them with," he said. "So yeah, I fell in love with it."
After returning to his hometown of Liberty to coach football, baseball and basketball at Amite School Center, Glenn took on the challenge of starting the softball program at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Miss.
"I was naïve, had no idea. They offered me a job with a meal ticket and a place to live," he said. "Had a $2,000 (recruiting) budget and two scholarships in a state where they didn't even play fastpitch softball."
To help recruiting, he took a job coaching a 16-and-under travel ball team out of Baton Rouge, getting paid $100 per week plus expenses.
"These athletes were far superior to the ones I coached in college. They were the cream of the crop in Louisiana, and they were really too good to come to me," Glenn said. "But I used that to recruit as we would go play other teams."
In his one season at William Carey, the Crusaders went 22-17 and finished second in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. Despite a limited resume, he was a highly sought pitching coach because of Ashley Lewis, a travel club player from his team who was named the first Miss Softball in Louisiana.
Glenn was part of another start-up program at LSU, named the Tigers' pitching coach. And while he missed out on Lewis the first time, she transferred to LSU from Texas A&M when Moore took over as head coach at the end of the '98 season.
"I had said no (to LSU) twice, and then they called me down, and I sat with a guy named Beetle Bailey, who was LSU baseball's hitting coach for Skip Bertman's first national championship team," Moore said. "He kind of convinced me that, 'Hey, this can do a lot for you.' So, I gave in and took the job."
Taking over as the interim head coach going into the 1998 NCAA regionals, Moore led the Tigers to a 2-2 record and then went 115-25 with back-to-back SEC championships in 1999 and 2000, coming within one win of a WCWS berth in his second full season.
"I was around family, I was in the mecca for sports in that area, at LSU. When I got that job, I thought I would be there for a long time," he said.
Somewhat ironically, with an eye on building a new softball facility at LSU, Moore visited Waco in the fall of '99, when Getterman Stadium was still under construction.
"I walked through this stadium while Coach (Paula) Young's team was practicing out on the field," Glenn said. "It wasn't finished, didn't have chairs, it didn't have a front, but it was all under construction. And I thought to myself, 'Wow, what a commitment!'
"I'll tell you something that hit me kind of hard. The stadium was not just a stadium, there was so much attention to detail. It sent a message to me that if they're going to cover the stands, if they're going to put the ironwork around it . . . they're going to do it right and they're going to support this sport."
When Young called after the 2000 season to see if the young LSU head coach was interested in coming to Baylor and taking over the program as she was stepping aside from coaching, his initial reaction was, "I'm not leaving here."
"We had just finished winning our second SEC title and I had, I think, four All-Americans on that team that were all returning," he said. "But my dad had always told me not to ever shut a door immediately, at least think things through. LSU had made some promises that I wasn't sure they were going to fulfill, and these other programs seemed to be more committed than we were there. So, I thought it might be worth at least checking out."
Meeting Glenn and Janice at the Waco airport, then-Baylor athletic director Tom Stanton said, "Welcome to the best-kept secret in Division I athletics."
By the next day, they had decided, "This is where we're supposed to be."
Mark Lumley, one of his assistants at LSU, called to see how the visit was going and was "floored" when Glenn relayed the news that "we really feel this is where the Lord is leading us."
"He told me to put Janice on the phone, 'there's no way you're leaving LSU,'" Glenn said. "And Janice told him, 'We really, really like this place. There's something special about it.'''
Moore was leaving an LSU program that would make the World Series the next season under first-year head coach Yvette Girouard for a Baylor team that had been dropped in 1988 and had two last-place finishes in the Big 12 in the four years since it was reinstated.
"We kept reminding ourselves that this is where God wants us. It was such a strong feeling to be here, we just felt we could overcome whatever obstacles there were," he said. "Certainly, the facility commitment was going to be a big sell. The education here, being in the state of Texas, even raising a family, there were so many positives to moving here."
With Lumley coming with him from Baton Rouge and then LSU All-American pitcher Britni Sneed Newman joining the staff as the pitching coach in 2004, Moore defied the odds by building a softball powerhouse that has averaged almost 40 wins per year, made 14 NCAA regionals and advanced to the World Series in 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2017.
Despite a 46-win season in 2002, Baylor didn't make its first NCAA regional until 2004. Cristin Vitek set an NCAA record with 28 strikeouts in a 1-0, 16-inning win over North Carolina in the opening game of an eight-team regional in Waco, but the Bears bowed out with back-to-back losses to LSU and Illinois.
"(2004) was really the year where we realized, 'Hey, we can be a player,''' Moore said. "Before, the mindset was competing against teams that weren't even in the Big 12. . . . We had to change the mindset that we've got to compete against Texas, we've got to compete against A&M. We got blessed with some incredible athletes . . . and really played with a chip on our shoulder."
After close calls the next two years, including a loss to California in a 2005 Super Regional, the Bears broke through in a big way in 2007 with a Big 12 championship and their first World Series appearance. Baylor rode the arms of Lisa Ferguson and Kirsten Shortridge and a powerful lineup led by All-American Ashley Monceaux (.413, 20 homers, 71 RBI).
"Ashley may have been the best hitter in the nation that year," Moore said. "Even with three All-Americans on the team, they would still pitch around her, no matter who was backing her up. So, we put her in the leadoff spot."
Baylor went back to the WCWS in 2011 and 2014 with All-American pitcher Whitney Canion, earning third-place finishes both times, and then made an improbable trip in 2017 with pitchers Kelsee Selman and Gia Rodoni and a potent lineup with Lindsey Cargill, Kyla Walker, Jessie Scroggins, Shelby Friudenberg and Goose McGlaun.
"Kelsee had so many struggles in her career. The year before, she couldn't throw a strike and was just frustrated," Moore said. "She hung on when many people would have walked away. She came back after the summer and said, 'I'm going to give it all to God. Whatever He wants out of me, I'm going to let him take.' And she ends up having a phenomenal year."
Since making it to an NCAA region final at Texas A&M in 2018, the Bears have struggled to get back to that level with a four-year record of 86-73. Moore suffered his first losing season as a coach in 2019 (18-31), went through a COVID-shorted 2020 season and then lost his best friend and longtime assistant, Lumley, to cancer in December 2020.
"It has been rough," Glenn said. "Injuries have been almost unbelievable to us. Even kids playing with injuries that couldn't play, like Gia, to the level that she was capable of playing. And then, Mark's fight was inspiring, but it was tough. I love my brothers to death, but he was closer to me than my brothers are. Just an amazing man and great coach as well."
After missing an NCAA regional for just the fourth time in the last 19 years, Baylor made the most of a postseason bid to last year's National Invitational Softball Championship in Fort Collins, Col., with an undefeated run that included a 4-0 win over UNLV in the championship.
"I thought if we handled it the right way, it would be very beneficial for us this year," Moore said. "We were forward thinking when we decided to go. We got 11 more practices in and we played four games and ended up winning it. So, I think it accomplished what we wanted, not for last year as much as this year. The kids left campus very motivated over the summer and came back in great shape. Every indicator we have now is that it paid off."
Led by All-Big 12 centerfielder McKenzie Wilson (.424, 27 stolen bases) and a 1-2 pitching punch of Aliyah Binford and Dariana Orme, Moore and the Bears expect to return to the NCAA tournament this season.
"We brought back some hardware (from the NISC), and now we know what we're really capable of," junior catcher Sydney Collazos said. "We know we could have done some damage in the NCAA tournament, and we know we can, especially this year."
Beginning her 20th season on the Baylor staff, Newman is "no doubt, the best pitching coach in the country," Moore said.
"I'm very blessed to have her," Glenn said. "She's had opportunities to leave, as Mark did, and she's chosen to stay here. She's family to us and has the same heart I have, as do all my coaches, for these kids. Even the ones that – just like a son or a daughter – give you fits every now and then, you still love them in the same way. We still want to wrap our arms around them.
"We're motivated by that as much as we are to win a championship, to find the kid that's on a wayward path and struggling with things and not buying in, and to find a way to win them over, too. Those are internal championships that we celebrate here that you can't write about and talk about, but there's a ton of them in this program."
Fulfilling prophecy, Glenn married Janice in 1997, and the couple has a daughter, Jacey, who graduated from Baylor last year; and a son, Ty, who is following the family tradition as a football player at Southwest Mississippi Community College.
The Moores, who also brought three foster sons into the family five years ago, recently became empty nesters when the boys returned to their father.
"The youngest is the one that's really got our heart, but we're hoping to stay in their lives," Glenn said. "We felt God leading us to build a bridge with them and give their dad another chance with them. And now, we're seeing all that come to fruition, so there's a sense of joy to see a reconciliation of the family as well."
Despite some health struggles of late and the other things he's gone through, Glenn said he has seen that passion for coaching rekindled.
"I think about (retiring), because I try to plan ahead as much as I can," he said. "I'm not a big goal-setter or anything, but I do think about where God's leading me next and how long I'm going to be here. I think coaches should all evaluate where they are yearly, and if they're making the same impact in the lives of the kids they're coaching, and if they're doing justice to the people writing your paycheck, and holding yourselves accountable."
Including third-year assistant coach Steve "Hoot" Johnigan, volunteer assistant Megan Diaz and director of softball operations Dani Price, Glenn said he has "an incredible staff . . . they pour into these kids."
"Blessed to be at a university that allows you do that. We had five baptisms (last Monday)," he said. "You can develop the physical and the mental, but if you neglect the spiritual, then you're neglecting the most important part. There's a hunger out there in these athletes and people spiritually, and that is a platform we have to where we can do that and leave the rest up to God."
The Bears open the season next Friday, Feb. 10, with an 11 a.m. CT matchup against Southern Utah on the first day of the UNLV Rebel Kickoff.
Baylor Bear Insider
Glenn Moore always just figured he would end up being a football coach, and he certainly looks the part.
But his love for softball started at an early age, watching his Daddy pitch for a local team at East Fork Ballpark in Liberty, Mississippi.
"He'd get through milking the cows in the afternoon, and he had a team that he would go pitch for," Glenn said of his dad, Willie "Buddy" Moore, who also worked for the railroad company. "Tournament weekends, Mama would cook fried chicken, and we'd have our picnics. Had some great memories of watching him play. And, of course, I thought he was Mr. Universe."
One day, he saw the opposing pitcher from Baton Rouge, La., warming up, and thought he was maybe throwing it even faster than his dad.
"I remember vividly being worried that there was somebody better than my dad," Glenn said. "I asked my mom, 'Is that man throwing faster than Daddy?' She turned and watched him throw and said, 'Oh, no, he's throwing a baseball. It just looks that way.' And I had a calm come over me, like, 'Daddy's still the best!'''
His passion for softball, stoked in those childhood visits to East Fork Ballpark, eventually led to a coaching path that is fast approaching 1,000 career wins and a 22-year record of 834-425 at Baylor with four trips to the Women's College World Series.
"I personally have had kind of a rekindling of the fire," said Moore, who will begin his 23rd season at Baylor and 26th as a head coach when the Bears play in the UNLV Rebel Kickoff Feb. 10-12 in Las Vegas. "Last year did that. It was a great culture, the team was fun to coach and sponges for learning and knowledge. They made me feel like I could coach again."
At Amite School Center, Glenn was a four-sport standout in football, basketball, baseball and track and was drawing interest from several SEC schools before a knee injury "sent them all away."
In what seemed like a rite of passage for the Moore family, Glenn played football and baseball at Southwest Mississippi Community College in nearby Summit, Miss. While his siblings either played sports, cheered or played in the band at Southwest Mississippi, Glenn would eventually join his grandfather (Earl) and dad (Buddy) in the SMCC Hall of Fame.
"Three generations in the Hall of Fame, so we have some strong ties there," he said.
The next step was Northwestern State University, where Glenn earned a football scholarship. While injuries pretty much derailed his football career, he had two life-defining moments at the school in Natchitoches, La.
Steve Pezant, "who was like a brother to me," went with Glenn to visit a local church in their first semester at Northwestern State. That's where he met his future wife, the former Janice Miller, who won a Southland Conference championship in the high jump for the Lady Demons.
"My buddy, Steve, went with me to church," Glenn said. "And when Janice and her twin sister walked in the door, I turned to Steve and said, 'See that girl right there? I'm going to marry that girl one day.' I've considered myself a prophet ever since. . . . I chased her for nine years, though, but I finally caught her. She slowed down enough." Moore also got his foot in the door in coaching at Northwestern State, first helping softball coach Rickey McCalister as a volunteer assistant and then as a full-time assistant in his last semester. Doubling as the coliseum manager, "I lived in the back of Prather (Coliseum) and worked with him and his team."
Despite a celebrated fastpitch softball playing career himself that included a stint with pitcher Eddie Feigner and the world-famous "The King and His Court," Moore said he was initially "a little intimidated" by coaching high-caliber female softball players from California.
"But it didn't take me long to realize that I had things I could help them with," he said. "So yeah, I fell in love with it."
After returning to his hometown of Liberty to coach football, baseball and basketball at Amite School Center, Glenn took on the challenge of starting the softball program at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Miss.
"I was naïve, had no idea. They offered me a job with a meal ticket and a place to live," he said. "Had a $2,000 (recruiting) budget and two scholarships in a state where they didn't even play fastpitch softball."
To help recruiting, he took a job coaching a 16-and-under travel ball team out of Baton Rouge, getting paid $100 per week plus expenses.
"These athletes were far superior to the ones I coached in college. They were the cream of the crop in Louisiana, and they were really too good to come to me," Glenn said. "But I used that to recruit as we would go play other teams."
In his one season at William Carey, the Crusaders went 22-17 and finished second in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. Despite a limited resume, he was a highly sought pitching coach because of Ashley Lewis, a travel club player from his team who was named the first Miss Softball in Louisiana.
Glenn was part of another start-up program at LSU, named the Tigers' pitching coach. And while he missed out on Lewis the first time, she transferred to LSU from Texas A&M when Moore took over as head coach at the end of the '98 season.
"I had said no (to LSU) twice, and then they called me down, and I sat with a guy named Beetle Bailey, who was LSU baseball's hitting coach for Skip Bertman's first national championship team," Moore said. "He kind of convinced me that, 'Hey, this can do a lot for you.' So, I gave in and took the job."
Taking over as the interim head coach going into the 1998 NCAA regionals, Moore led the Tigers to a 2-2 record and then went 115-25 with back-to-back SEC championships in 1999 and 2000, coming within one win of a WCWS berth in his second full season.
"I was around family, I was in the mecca for sports in that area, at LSU. When I got that job, I thought I would be there for a long time," he said.
Somewhat ironically, with an eye on building a new softball facility at LSU, Moore visited Waco in the fall of '99, when Getterman Stadium was still under construction.
"I walked through this stadium while Coach (Paula) Young's team was practicing out on the field," Glenn said. "It wasn't finished, didn't have chairs, it didn't have a front, but it was all under construction. And I thought to myself, 'Wow, what a commitment!'
"I'll tell you something that hit me kind of hard. The stadium was not just a stadium, there was so much attention to detail. It sent a message to me that if they're going to cover the stands, if they're going to put the ironwork around it . . . they're going to do it right and they're going to support this sport."
When Young called after the 2000 season to see if the young LSU head coach was interested in coming to Baylor and taking over the program as she was stepping aside from coaching, his initial reaction was, "I'm not leaving here."
"We had just finished winning our second SEC title and I had, I think, four All-Americans on that team that were all returning," he said. "But my dad had always told me not to ever shut a door immediately, at least think things through. LSU had made some promises that I wasn't sure they were going to fulfill, and these other programs seemed to be more committed than we were there. So, I thought it might be worth at least checking out."
Meeting Glenn and Janice at the Waco airport, then-Baylor athletic director Tom Stanton said, "Welcome to the best-kept secret in Division I athletics."
By the next day, they had decided, "This is where we're supposed to be."
Mark Lumley, one of his assistants at LSU, called to see how the visit was going and was "floored" when Glenn relayed the news that "we really feel this is where the Lord is leading us."
"He told me to put Janice on the phone, 'there's no way you're leaving LSU,'" Glenn said. "And Janice told him, 'We really, really like this place. There's something special about it.'''
Moore was leaving an LSU program that would make the World Series the next season under first-year head coach Yvette Girouard for a Baylor team that had been dropped in 1988 and had two last-place finishes in the Big 12 in the four years since it was reinstated.
"We kept reminding ourselves that this is where God wants us. It was such a strong feeling to be here, we just felt we could overcome whatever obstacles there were," he said. "Certainly, the facility commitment was going to be a big sell. The education here, being in the state of Texas, even raising a family, there were so many positives to moving here."
With Lumley coming with him from Baton Rouge and then LSU All-American pitcher Britni Sneed Newman joining the staff as the pitching coach in 2004, Moore defied the odds by building a softball powerhouse that has averaged almost 40 wins per year, made 14 NCAA regionals and advanced to the World Series in 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2017.
Despite a 46-win season in 2002, Baylor didn't make its first NCAA regional until 2004. Cristin Vitek set an NCAA record with 28 strikeouts in a 1-0, 16-inning win over North Carolina in the opening game of an eight-team regional in Waco, but the Bears bowed out with back-to-back losses to LSU and Illinois.
"(2004) was really the year where we realized, 'Hey, we can be a player,''' Moore said. "Before, the mindset was competing against teams that weren't even in the Big 12. . . . We had to change the mindset that we've got to compete against Texas, we've got to compete against A&M. We got blessed with some incredible athletes . . . and really played with a chip on our shoulder."
After close calls the next two years, including a loss to California in a 2005 Super Regional, the Bears broke through in a big way in 2007 with a Big 12 championship and their first World Series appearance. Baylor rode the arms of Lisa Ferguson and Kirsten Shortridge and a powerful lineup led by All-American Ashley Monceaux (.413, 20 homers, 71 RBI).
"Ashley may have been the best hitter in the nation that year," Moore said. "Even with three All-Americans on the team, they would still pitch around her, no matter who was backing her up. So, we put her in the leadoff spot."
Baylor went back to the WCWS in 2011 and 2014 with All-American pitcher Whitney Canion, earning third-place finishes both times, and then made an improbable trip in 2017 with pitchers Kelsee Selman and Gia Rodoni and a potent lineup with Lindsey Cargill, Kyla Walker, Jessie Scroggins, Shelby Friudenberg and Goose McGlaun.
"Kelsee had so many struggles in her career. The year before, she couldn't throw a strike and was just frustrated," Moore said. "She hung on when many people would have walked away. She came back after the summer and said, 'I'm going to give it all to God. Whatever He wants out of me, I'm going to let him take.' And she ends up having a phenomenal year."
Since making it to an NCAA region final at Texas A&M in 2018, the Bears have struggled to get back to that level with a four-year record of 86-73. Moore suffered his first losing season as a coach in 2019 (18-31), went through a COVID-shorted 2020 season and then lost his best friend and longtime assistant, Lumley, to cancer in December 2020.
"It has been rough," Glenn said. "Injuries have been almost unbelievable to us. Even kids playing with injuries that couldn't play, like Gia, to the level that she was capable of playing. And then, Mark's fight was inspiring, but it was tough. I love my brothers to death, but he was closer to me than my brothers are. Just an amazing man and great coach as well."
After missing an NCAA regional for just the fourth time in the last 19 years, Baylor made the most of a postseason bid to last year's National Invitational Softball Championship in Fort Collins, Col., with an undefeated run that included a 4-0 win over UNLV in the championship.
"I thought if we handled it the right way, it would be very beneficial for us this year," Moore said. "We were forward thinking when we decided to go. We got 11 more practices in and we played four games and ended up winning it. So, I think it accomplished what we wanted, not for last year as much as this year. The kids left campus very motivated over the summer and came back in great shape. Every indicator we have now is that it paid off."
Led by All-Big 12 centerfielder McKenzie Wilson (.424, 27 stolen bases) and a 1-2 pitching punch of Aliyah Binford and Dariana Orme, Moore and the Bears expect to return to the NCAA tournament this season.
"We brought back some hardware (from the NISC), and now we know what we're really capable of," junior catcher Sydney Collazos said. "We know we could have done some damage in the NCAA tournament, and we know we can, especially this year."
Beginning her 20th season on the Baylor staff, Newman is "no doubt, the best pitching coach in the country," Moore said.
"I'm very blessed to have her," Glenn said. "She's had opportunities to leave, as Mark did, and she's chosen to stay here. She's family to us and has the same heart I have, as do all my coaches, for these kids. Even the ones that – just like a son or a daughter – give you fits every now and then, you still love them in the same way. We still want to wrap our arms around them.
"We're motivated by that as much as we are to win a championship, to find the kid that's on a wayward path and struggling with things and not buying in, and to find a way to win them over, too. Those are internal championships that we celebrate here that you can't write about and talk about, but there's a ton of them in this program."
Fulfilling prophecy, Glenn married Janice in 1997, and the couple has a daughter, Jacey, who graduated from Baylor last year; and a son, Ty, who is following the family tradition as a football player at Southwest Mississippi Community College.
The Moores, who also brought three foster sons into the family five years ago, recently became empty nesters when the boys returned to their father.
"The youngest is the one that's really got our heart, but we're hoping to stay in their lives," Glenn said. "We felt God leading us to build a bridge with them and give their dad another chance with them. And now, we're seeing all that come to fruition, so there's a sense of joy to see a reconciliation of the family as well."
Despite some health struggles of late and the other things he's gone through, Glenn said he has seen that passion for coaching rekindled.
"I think about (retiring), because I try to plan ahead as much as I can," he said. "I'm not a big goal-setter or anything, but I do think about where God's leading me next and how long I'm going to be here. I think coaches should all evaluate where they are yearly, and if they're making the same impact in the lives of the kids they're coaching, and if they're doing justice to the people writing your paycheck, and holding yourselves accountable."
Including third-year assistant coach Steve "Hoot" Johnigan, volunteer assistant Megan Diaz and director of softball operations Dani Price, Glenn said he has "an incredible staff . . . they pour into these kids."
"Blessed to be at a university that allows you do that. We had five baptisms (last Monday)," he said. "You can develop the physical and the mental, but if you neglect the spiritual, then you're neglecting the most important part. There's a hunger out there in these athletes and people spiritually, and that is a platform we have to where we can do that and leave the rest up to God."
The Bears open the season next Friday, Feb. 10, with an 11 a.m. CT matchup against Southern Utah on the first day of the UNLV Rebel Kickoff.
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