Trace Bevell
Head Coach Men's Basketball
Office: 1562
307-382-1651

Coach Bevell enters his 5th year as the Head Coach to the Men's Basketball program. He has a four year record of 84-50 at Western Wyoming CC and a 16 year career record of 321-193. Coach Bevell has coached numerous NJCAA Basketball and Academic All-Americans as well as All-Region and All-Conference players. He has also had the opportunity to coach over 80 players who have gone on to play at the 4 year university/college level. He has also been fortunate e nough to coach players who have gone on to play at the Professional level as well. His tremendous amount of experience and enthusiasm for the sport is obvious and resulted in great season both on the court and in the classroom. Prior to coming to Western Wyoming Community College, Coach Bevell served three years as the Head Coach at Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff, NE, and for 9 years as the Head Coach and Athletic Director at McCook Community College in McCook, NE. Coach Bevell also served as an Assistant Coach at Western Oregon University, South Dakota State University, and at Brighton High School in Salt Lake City, UT. He has also worked numerous basketball camps throughout the West Coast. In 1998 he was also a floor coach at the USA Basketball Men's National Team trials.

Coach Bevell has an Associate's Degree from Blue Mountain Community mCollege (Pendleton, OR), a Bachelor's of Science Degree in secondary education from Western Oregon University (Monmouth, OR), and a Master's of Science Degree from South Dakota State University (Brookings, SD). Coach bevell is committed to maintaining Western's focus on the student-athlete. "My philosophy to coaching is to create an atmosphere that generates success--one where imrpovement, both individual and team, occurs on a daily basis," Bevell said. He is also quoted as saying, " I believe that a coach needs to be passionate and enthusiastic about his program". His passion and enthusiasm will be contagious again this year to his players, which in turn will rub off on the community.

Coach Bevell is married to the former Tiffany Annie Hildebrandt, and they are the parents of 4 daughters, Taylor (Robb), Tyrnee, Talyn and Tannyr.

 

Travis Archibald
Assistant Coach Men's Basketball

 

Coach Archibald grew up in Laramie, WY.  Coach Archibald graduated from Kemmerer High School.  He worked for a couple of years and then came back to college to play basketball for two years at Western.  In his sophomore year, he was voted as team captain by his team and started as a small forward.  Travis helped lead Western to conference and sub-region championships averaging 12 points and 5 rebounds.  Earning all-conference honors for academics, he graduated with an Associate of Science degree in 2005 and felt he had a very successful career at Western in both basketball and school.