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.