Steve Wright begins his second season coaching the defensive backs at WT. He played for the Buffs from 2009-2011 before transferring to Valley City State University in North Dakota.
There, he played cornerback and helped lead his team to a 2014 NSAA Conference championship. Wright graduated with a degree in math from VCSU.
The North Pole, Alaska, native then returned to WT to work on a civil engineering degree and coach the Buffs.
He has a brother Lance who is wide receivier at Rice and his sister Abby is a freshman at Tarleton State.