When Harley Redin announced his retirement after 17 very successful years as coach of the Flying Queens in 1973, he handpicked his own successor.   Dean Weese had posted one of the greatest coaching records in the history of girl's basketball in 15 years at Spearman High School.  He had a 444-76 record and his teams had won 13 straight conference titles and three state championships.

In his first year at Wayland, Coach Weese did nothing but further enhance his coaching stature.  That year he coached the Flying Queens to a record number of games played (41), record number of wins (37), new team high in scoring average, their ninth AAU title, their sixth straight NWIT title, first place in the Southwest Region AIAW Tournament and fifth place in the national tournament.

Over the course of the next five years, the Flying Queens won one other AAU Championship, one AAU runner-up title, three additional NWIT titles, and appeared in the National AIAW Tournament four more times, capturing one third place, one fourth place, and two consolation trophies. Eleven of the individuals he coached combined to win 46 All-American honors.
He also coached an AAU All-Star team in a series of games in Russia, was an assistant coach in the Pan-American games in Cali, Columbia, and served as a coach in the Texas-Oklahoma All-Star Game for six years.  In 1978, the Queens were sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention on a trip to Hong Kong.

Although he averaged 32 wins in six seasons as coach of the Flying Queens, Coach Weese left in 1979 to take over the reigns of the Dallas Diamonds of the Women's Professional Basketball League.   He returned to the Texas Panhandle a year later to take over as coach at Levelland High School, where he won 17 more district titles and seven additional state championships, including four straight from 1985-1989.

When he retired following the 1998-99 season, Coach Weese, who has become known as the "Father of West Texas Girl's Basketball," had compiled 1,207 victories with only 197 losses in 42 years of coaching for an .860 winning percentage.  He has been inducted the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, and in 2000 he was named National Girl's Coach for the Year by the National Federation of High School Coaches, and was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, TN.

Coach Weese and his wife, JoAnn, have three children: De Ann, Todd and Jeremy.