Bob Schneider (basketball)

Bob Schneider (born August 25, 1936) is a retired American high school and university sports coach. Schneider started his coaching career with high schools in Texas and New Mexico between 1958 and 1978. During this time period, Schneider was primarily a coach for Canyon High School from 1966 to 1978. With Canyon, Schneider won five basketball and three track titles in the 3A girls division as part of the University Interscholastic League. He also had 350 wins and 59 losses with the girls basketball team at Canyon.

As a university basketball coach, Schneider had 49 wins and 38 losses for Texas Woman's University between 1978 and 1981. After joining West Texas State University in 1981, Schneider's team reached the final of 1988 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament. After the university was renamed to West Texas A&M in 1993, Schneider remained with the team until 2006. With West Texas, Schneider won the Lone Star Conference women's basketball tournament eight times. After leaving the university with 585 wins and 163 losses, Schneider had a combined total of 1045 wins and 293 losses in basketball. He received a WBCA National Coach of the Year Award in 1997 and became part of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.