McMurry University Athletics

Lee Driggers spent 13 successful seasons as the head baseball coach at McMurry University from 1996-2008. he agreed to help McMurry start a baseball program that had been in absencia for 47 years. In 1996, the university's first team since 1948, McMurry posted a 27-19 record. Since then, Driggers and McMurry have never looked back. Driggers led McMurry to 13-straight winning seasons and has only posted one season with lower than 25 wins. McMurry won the ASC Tournament Championship in 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2008; all four seasons Driggers was named conference Coach of the Year.

While at McMurry, Driggers has coached numerous all-conference honorees, all-region players and five all-Americans in Joe Fichera, Josh Lee, Derek David, Brent Voorhees and Albert Carrizales. He also coached major league draft picks Tom Pike, Jim Wollscheid and Josh Lee. In addition to its four conference championship titles, McMurry won the ASC West Division title under Driggers' direction in 2001, 2004 and 2008.

In 13 seasons at McMurry, Driggers' all-time record was 360-218-2 for a .621 winning percentage. As a collegiate head coach where he had stints at Tarleton State, Hardin-Simmons and now Wheaton College (2009-pres.), he has won 449 games as a collegiate head coach.

His uncle Walt, helped fund the playing facility at McMurry, which carries his name sake: Walt Driggers Field. During his tenure as head coach, Lee Driggers made sure that the facility was maintained at a superior level, and to this day, the field is considered one of the premiere baseball facilities in all the NCAA Division III.

Driggers and his wife Sharon have two daughters: Kristi Womack of Abilene and Jodi Unger of Springdale, Ark and a son, Austin, who plays football and baseball for his dad at Wheaton College in Illinois.