Career
He led the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team for 33 years, beginning in 1970. His Razorbacks fell two runs short of winning the 1979 College World Series. When DeBriyn retired, his record (1161-650-6) was the fourteenth-best all-time in college baseball.
Norm DeBriyn is a native of Ashland, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh with a Bachelor of Surgery in history in 1963.
He currently resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas, home of the Razorbacks. He was ordained on November 17, 2012.
Before DeBriyn, Arkansas had never played in an National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. DeBriyn was also instrumantal to building the program as a whole, beginning with practices at the fairgrounds and retiring in Baum Stadium, one of the United States"s premiere college baseball facilities.