When the 2020-21 basketball season begins, Bailey Wipff will begin her second season as an assistant coach for Tarleton. Wipff moved into a full-time assistant coach role after a three-year playing career for Tarleton and two years as a graduate assistant under head coach Misty Wilson.
In Wipff’s first year of coaching, Tarleton won 20 games for the first time since 2013-14 and advanced to the LSC Tournament Championship game for the second consecutive season. Tarleton then earned an at-large bid to the NCAA playoffs.
In Tarleton State’s final NCAA Division II season, Wipff helped lead the Texans to a third consecutive 20-win season with a 21-8 overall record. Tarleton went 15-7 in the final LSC season, with a 11-5 record in Wisdom Gym.
As a graduate assistant, Tarleton went 22-9 and advanced to the NCAA regional tournament for the third straight year. Wipff has been a part of all three NCAA tournament appearances for Wilson as a head coach (two as a graduate assistant, one as a player).
Wipff enjoyed a three-year playing career with Tarleton, all under head coach Misty Wilson, where she etched her name in the record books. She finished her career with the second-most three-point field goals made (161) and attempted (422) in Tarleton history. Her .382 career percentage from downtown has her ranked No. 6 all-time. She played in 83 games at Tarleton, starting 75 games, and scored 978 points for an average of 11.8 per game on a .410 percentage from the floor.
In her final home game, Wipff connected for two of the biggest points of her career while standing alone at the free throw line in front of a packed house at Wisdom Gym and a national audience on WatchESPN.com. In a tie game against Angelo State on ESPN3, a technical foul was called in the final seconds and Wipff went to the line and drained the go-ahead free throws to deliver a win in the program’s first-ever nationally broadcasted game. Less than a month later, she scored 18 points against Angelo State in Allen to lead a Tarleton comeback in the championship game of the LSC Tournament.
She was a two-time second-team All-Lone Star Conference selection, a two-time academic All-LSC selection, a three-time LSC Commissioner’s Honor Roll selection, the LSC Academic Player of the Year, an LSC Scholar-Athlete, and Tarleton’s 2017 NCAA Division II Woman of the Year nominee in her career.
Wipff came to Tarleton after a one-year stint at Howard College following her four-year career at Lubbock Coronado High School. Wipff graduated with her undergraduate degree in 2017 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction.
