Coach Bart Bratcher grew up in Levelland, Texas and later moved to Lubbock.  He attended Monterey High School and graduated in 1967. From there he went to Baylor University, where he played baseball for four years. Coach Bratcher is grateful to have played for two great competitors and teachers, and they have been very inspirational to him. They are Bobby Moegle at Monterey and Dutch Schroeder at Baylor. He graduated, cum laude, in 1971, and received his M.S. in 1972. While in graduate school at Baylor he was an assistant for the Physical Education department  and an assistant baseball coach.

            Coach Bratcher began his high school coaching career at Brazosport High School, where he was the head baseball coach and a JV football coach from 1973 to 1976. His Brazosport baseball teams were state quarter‑finalist and semi‑finalist in 1975 and 1976 respectively.  While at Brazosport, his teams compiled a combined record of 74‑50. He became head baseball coach at Irving High School in the fall of 1976.  He coached there five years, compiling an overall record of 70‑70.  In 1980 his Irving team was district champion, defeating perennial champion Duncanville in a district playoff.

            Coach Bratcher came to Westwood HS with the school's opening in the fall of 1981, as head baseball coach and football assistant.

            Coach Bratcher has been a member of the Texas HS Baseball Coaches Association since in 1973 and has held the positions of Regional Director, Vice-President, and President of the association.  He was the U.I.L. representative for THSBCA for about 8 years.  He has given clinics for youth league coaches since 1976 in Brazosport, Irving and the Westwood area.  Since 1975, he has conducted many youth baseball camps.  In 1995, he was honored by his peers and inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame.  Coach & Mrs. Bratcher participated in a mission-oriented baseball tour in the summer of 1997 to Zimbabwe, Africa.  Coach Bratcher participated again each summer  since then.

            Coach Bratcher and his wife Debra have two sons, Lee Edward, born July 23, 1987, and Stephen Wayne, born August 15, 1989.  He and Debbie married on January 18, 1986.