2013. Five of the top nine most attended games at Clay Gould Ballpark feature TCU as the visiting team. During UTA's nine years in the Sun Belt, the WAC experienced major membership turnover; when the Mavericks returned in 2022, the only WAC members who were in the league during their one season in that league will be New Mexico State, which will leave for Conference USA in 2023, and Seattle. UTA joins five other Texas schools in the conference—Abilene Christian, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Tarleton, and UTRGV, though Sam Houston will leave the WAC for Conference USA in 2023. Notable people University leaders Presidents, deans, and other heads of UT Arlington and its predecessor institutions: Lee Morgan Hammond and William H. Trimble, Arlington College, 1895–1898 Lee Morgan Hammond, Arlington College, 1898–1900 W. W. Franklin, Arlington College, 1900–1902 James M. Carlisle, Carlisle Military Academy, 1902–1913 Henry Kirby Taylor, Arlington Training School, 1913–1916 John B. Dodson, Arlington Military Academy, 1916–1917 Myron L. Williams, Dean, Grubbs Vocational College and North Texas Agricultural College (NTAC), 1917–1925 Edward Everett Davis, Dean, NTAC, 1925–1946 Ernest H. Hereford, PhD, Dean, NTAC, 1946–1948, and President, Arlington State College (ASC), 1948–1958 Jack R. Woolf, PhD, President, ASC and UT Arlington (UTA), 1959–1968 Frank Harrison, PhD, President, UTA, 1968–1972 Wendell Nedderman, PhD, President, UTA, 1972–1992 Ryan C. Amacher, PhD, President, UTA, 1992–1995 Robert E. Witt, PhD, President, UTA, 1995–2003 Charles A. Sorber, PhD, Interim President, UTA, 2003–2004 James D. Spaniolo, M.P.A., J.D., President, UTA, 2004–2013 Vistasp Karbhari, PhD, President, UTA, 2013–2020 Teik C. Lim, Interim President, UTA, 2020–2022 Jennifer Evans-Cowley, President, UTA, 2022–present Alumni Kalpana Chawla, first Indian-American astronaut and first Indian woman in space Pat Choate, American economist, 1996 Reform Party candidate for Vice President Waded Cruzado, educator, the 12th president of Montana State University Roland G. Fryer Jr., educator, Professor of Economics at Harvard University Caitlin Glass, voice actress Marjorie Herrera Lewis, author Michael Langley, first African American Marine Corps general and Commander, U.S. Africa Command Lou Diamond Phillips, actor and director Joey McGuire, current head football coach at Texas Tech R. Byron Pipes, educator, researcher in polymer sciences and the seventeenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Doug Russell, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three different events Robert L. Stewart, astronaut and first active-duty U.S. Army soldier to make a spaceflight Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, businessman, politician and advisor to the Government of Bangladesh on Information