Thomas Orr returned to UMHB as men’s basketball assistant coach in May of 2020. Orr rejoined his alma mater after spending 2019 as an assistant coach at the University of the Ozarks, a fellow American Southwest Conference member. Orr also spent two years as an assistant coach at Texas Lutheran University and helped lead the Bulldogs to a pair of Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships during his tenure. He started his collegiate coaching career as a student assistant at UMHB in 2013-14 and has also coached on the high school level at Buffalo High School and in the Longview ISD.
Orr was a two-year letter winner for the Cru men’s basketball team and was UMHB’s leading scorer when the team advanced to the NCAA Division III National Championship Game his senior season. He had 24 points and 11 rebounds in the title game. Orr was a D3hoops.com All-South Region selection and ASC All-Conference and All-West Division pick that year. He graduated from UMHB with a degree in interdisciplinary studies in 2014 and earned a Master’s Degree in sport management from Franklin-Pierce University in 2016. Orr is a native of Hutto, Texas.
