For the fifth consecutive year, Lone Star Conference Commissioner Jay Poerner kicked off the conference’s Media Day festivities inside McKinney ISD Stadium with a statement on the strength of the conference. Poerner, beginning his tenth season as LSC Commissioner, spoke about the conference's stability with the addition of Sul Ross State this season and UT Dallas next year.
“The addition of the University of Texas at Dallas, recently accepted into the Division II membership process, will make the LSC 18 members deep next year, making the LSC the largest and most formidable conference in the country at any level,” Poerner said. “As a conference, we celebrated 13 regional championships. We had five teams finish as a national semifinalist. We won 12 individual national championships in four different sports, and we capped off the year celebrating our 81st team national championship with UT Tyler winning the 2024 NCAA Division II softball national championship.”