A former All-American at Texas Wesleyan, Brian Wanamaker is in his first season (2024-25) as an head coach for the Rams.
After an extensive professional playing career, Wanamaker returned to Texas Wesleyan in 2019-20 and helped guide the Rams to back-to-back NAIA Tournament qualifications, giving the program a string of five tournament appearances in the last six seasons.
Wanamaker played his junior and senior seasons at Texas Wesleyan, twice earning All-Red River Athletic Conference honors and twice leading the team to the NAIA National Tournament. In 2010-11 was named RRAC Player of the Year and became just the third Ram to earn 1st-team NAIA All-American honors after averaging 19.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5 assists per game. In two seasons he scored 1,046 points, becoming the 17th member of Texas Wesleyan's 1,000 Point Club.
Following his graduation, Wanamaker was drafted into the NBA D-League and went on to play six seasons in various European professional leagues.
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