The Maxwell Football Club today announced that Dave Aranda has been selected as the 2021 George Munger Collegiate Coach of the Year Award winner after leading the Baylor Bears to a Big 12 Championship. 
 
The Bears rose from 2-7 in Aranda's debut 2020 season to 12-2 in 2021. After finishing 7-2 in the Big 12 regular season, the Bears knocked off then-No. 5 Oklahoma State, 21-16, in the Big 12 Championship Game to earn a Sugar Bowl berth opposite Ole Miss. On New Year’s Day in New Orleans, the fifth-ranked Bears defeated the No. 11 Rebels, 21-7.
 
Maxwell Football Club Executive Director Mark Wolpert commented, “Coach Aranda has engineered an amazing turnaround for the Baylor program. The team’s 12-2 mark is a great testament to the hard work of Coach and his staff, and also to the dedication shown by the student-athletes involved in the program. The fact that this was all accomplished under the cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic makes this achievement all the more impressive.”
 
Aranda will be honored Friday, March 18, 2022 at the 85^th Maxwell Football Club National Awards Gala which will be held at the Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, NJ.