TCU Names Mark Campbell as Women's Basketball Coach

Mark Campbell

 

Mark Campbell has been named TCU's new head women's basketball coach.

Campbell, who becomes the eighth head coach in TCU’s women’s basketball history, replaces Raegan Pebley, who resigned at the end of this season after serving as TCU's women's basketball coach for nine seasons.

Campbell comes to TCU from Sacramento State, where for the past two seasons he was head women's basketball coach. Campbell led Sacramento State to a school-record 25 wins this season and its first NCAA Tournament appearance. The Hornets won a share of their first Big Sky regular season championship and first Big Sky Tournament title. The 25 victories marked the first 20-win season in program history and were also the most ever by a Sacramento State men’s or women’s basketball team.

After inheriting a 3-22 team, it took Campbell just two seasons to take the Hornets to the NCAA Tournament. Sacramento State’s 14 wins in its first season under Campbell, marking an 11-game improvement, tied for the nation’s seventh-best turnaround.

During his two years with Sacramento State, in which he had a 39-24 record, Campbell coached four players to All-Big Sky honors.

Prior to Sacramento State, Campbell spent seven years at Oregon, with the last six as associate head coach. Campbell helped lead Oregon to three straight Pac-12 regular-season titles, two Pac-12 Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 2019. He worked with Oregon’s guards, created the Ducks’ defensive game plan and was the team’s lead recruiter.

As Oregon's lead recruited, Campbell helped bring in some of the nation’s top recruiting classes, including a No. 1 ranking in 2020. His recruiting efforts with the Ducks included unanimous national player of the year and WNBA No. 1 draft pick Sabrina Ionescu.

Prior to joining Oregon, Campbell served on the staff at Oregon State. Beginning as an assistant coach, he was promoted to associate head coach for the 2013-14 season. Campbell proved instrumental in the recruiting efforts of the Beavers. He was an integral part of turning around a program that went from 9-21 in 2010-11 to an NCAA Second Round appearance in 2014.

Before heading to Corvallis, Campbell spent two seasons with the men’s basketball program at Saint Mary’s. He was the team’s director of operations before becoming an assistant coach under Randy Bennett. Preceding his stint at Saint Mary’s, Campbell spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant coach for the Pepperdine men’s basketball program under Vance Walberg.

From 2005-07, Campbell coached at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Ore., helping the Cougars to the 2007 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) Championship.

During his playing days, Campbell played at Cal Poly and Clackamas before transferring to Hawai`i for his final two seasons.  

Campbell earned a degree in liberal studies from Hawai`i in 2004, adding a master’s degree in education from George Fox in 2006. 

Campbell is a native of Mt. Vernon, Washington. He and his wife, Ashley, who played basketball at Vanderbilt, have two daughters, Maley and Makay.

 

 

 

Raegan Pebley's Women's Basketball Coaching Era Ends at TCU

TCU women's basketball coach Raegan Pebley is embraced by members of the team after the last home game of the season on March 4, 2023. Pebley has resigned after nine years as the team's head coach.          -- Photo by Tom C. (Midnite) Burke

TCU women's head basketball coach Ragen Pebley's era at TCU came to an end in Kansas City on Friday, March 10, when the Frogs lost a quarterfinal Big 12 tournament game, 77-76, in the closing seconds to 14th-ranked Oklahoma. 

TCU had lost its regular-season finale on March 4, 84-61, to the University of Kansas in Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth. For the regular season, the Frogs had a 7-22 overall record, 1-17 in the Big 12. TCU's lone win in conference play came on February 18, when the Frogs beat Kansas State, 75-62, in Fort Worth.

On March 9, in its opening game of the Big 12 tournament, 10th-seeded TCU upset Kansas, 57-52, earning the Frogs the opportunity play Oklahoma.

Pebley announced in late February that she was stepping down as the Frogs' head coach at the end of this season. 

“TCU has my heart. This school, this city and most of all the people have been so special to my family and me,” Pebley said. “I believe in the potential of our women’s basketball program and (TCU Athletic Director)Jeremiah Donati’s leadership. I met with Jeremiah and shared with him that I think it is time for a change. While this is hard, the new landscape of college athletics and recruiting make this the right time for this announcement so TCU can make a hire this program and these women deserve.”

Pebley coached women's basketball at TCU for nine seasons. Her overall record was 141-138.

Pebley led the Horned Frogs to four postseason appearances in her first five seasons, including WNIT Semifinals appearances in 2017-18 and 2018-19. The 2019-20 squad was on the way to making a postseason appearance prior to the NCAA Tournament being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TCU was 10-15 in 2020-21 and, 6-22 with two conference wins last season. 

Pebley became the program's seventh head coach on April 1, 2014. She arrived at TCU after spending the previous two seasons at Fresno State, where she led the Bulldogs to Mountain West tournament titles and berths into the NCAA Tournament in each of her two seasons. 

Prior to Fresno State, Pebley, who is an Orem, Utah, native, started the Utah State women's basketball program after its reinstatement in 2003 following a 25-year hiatus. Pebley led the Aggies for nine seasons, building the program from scratch into back-to-back WNIT berths, which were the first postseason appearances in school history.

Prior to her coaching career, Pebley was a standout basketball player at the University of Colorado. She was selected with the 21st overall pick of the inaugural WNBA Draft in 1997, where she played two seasons with the Cleveland Rockers and Utah Starzz. During her coaching career at TCU, Pebley regularly served as the color analyst on television broadcasts for the Dallas Wings of the WNBA.