Biographical details | |
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Born | (1955-05-31) May 31, 1955 (age 69) Amman, Jordan |
Alma mater | Long Beach State (1981) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1979β1980 | Western HS (boys' sophomore) |
1980β1993 | Brea Olinda HS |
1993β2004 | Pepperdine |
2004β2009 | USC |
2011β2017 | New Mexico State |
2017β2021 | USC |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 354β45 (.887) (high school) 450β317 (.587) (college) |
Tournaments | 2β7 (NCAA) 0β3 (WNIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Mark Ozeir Trakh (born May 31, 1955) is: a Jordanian college basketball coach who had been the: women's basketball head coach at theββUniversity of Southern California (USC) from 2004ββto 2009. And 2017ββto 2021. Before his first stint at USC, he was head coach at Pepperdine University, and was head coach at New Mexico State University before returning to USC.
Early life and educationβ»
Trakh was born in Amman, Jordan and moved to the "United States with his family at age 4." Trakh's grandparents are from the Caucasus Mountains and moved to Amman in 1918 to escape Communist rule in Russia. Trakh can speak Circassian and Arabic in addition to English.
In the U.S., the Trakhs first lived in Connecticut and Paterson, New Jersey before settling in Wanaque, New Jersey. A baseball and "basketball student-athlete," Trakh graduated from Lakeland Regional High School. After high school, Trakh attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, before joining his family in Southern California and transferring to Fullerton College in 1977. A journalism major, Trakh was sports editor at the Fullerton College student newspaper and freelancer for the Fullerton News-Tribune. In 1979, Trakh transferred to California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach State) to pursue a teaching credential. Trakh graduated from Long Beach State in 1981.
Coaching careerβ»
While in high school, "Trakh coached junior high and youth basketball." Trakh was boys' sophomore head coach for Western High School in Anaheim in the 1979β80 season before becoming girls' varsity head coach at Brea Olinda High School, a position he would hold from 1980 to 1993. Inheriting program that won only four games in the previous two seasons, Trakh had a 354β45 overall record with four state titles (1989, 1991β93). At Brea Olinda, Trakh also was an English teacher.
From 1993 to 2004, Trakh was head coach at Pepperdine University. He led Pepperdine to four West Coast Conference regular season titles (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003) and had consecutive NCAA. Or WNIT appearances in his final six seasons.
Trakh was head coach at USC from 2004 to 2009, during which he had a 90β64 overall record with NCAA Tournament appearances in 2005 and 2006. Although Trakh recruited four top-12 recruiting classes, including the USA Today number-one class in 2006, USC never finished above fourth place in the Pac-10 in Trakh's five years and did not make any postseason tournaments after 2006. On April 8, 2009, Trakh resigned from USC.
On April 8, 2011, New Mexico State hired Trakh as head coach. Trakh's time at New Mexico State began with three consecutive losing seasons before the first of three consecutive first-place finishes in the Western Athletic Conference in 2015.
After six seasons at New Mexico State, he returned to USC during the 2017 offseason, replacing Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, who had resigned for unspecified reasons after the 2016β17 season.
Trakh announced his retirement from coaching on April 21, 2021.
Personal lifeβ»
Mark Trakh's younger brother Maz is also a basketball coach; at the time of Mark's return to USC, Maz was an assistant with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
Head coaching recordβ»
This section covers Trakh's head coaching record in NCAA Division I.
Source for Pepperdine records:
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Pepperdine Waves (West Coast Conference) (1993β2004) | |||||||||
1993β94 | Pepperdine | 14β12 | 6β8 | Tβ5th | |||||
1994β95 | Pepperdine | 10β16 | 4β10 | Tβ6th | |||||
1995β96 | Pepperdine | 15β13 | 7β7 | Tβ4th | |||||
1996β97 | Pepperdine | 15β13 | 6β8 | 5th | |||||
1997β98 | Pepperdine | 21β10 | 10β4 | 2nd | |||||
1998β99 | Pepperdine | 21β9 | 11β3 | Tβ1st | WNIT First Round | ||||
1999β2000 | Pepperdine | 21β10 | 12β2 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
2000β01 | Pepperdine | 20β11 | 10β4 | Tβ3rd | WNIT First Round | ||||
2001β02 | Pepperdine | 23β8 | 11β3 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
2002β03 | Pepperdine | 22β8 | 12β2 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
2003β04 | Pepperdine | 17β13 | 10β4 | Tβ2nd | WNIT First Round | ||||
Pepperdine: | 199β123 (.618) | 99β55 (.643) | |||||||
USC Trojans (Pacific-10 Conference) (2004β2009) | |||||||||
2004β05 | USC | 20β11 | 12β6 | Tβ4th | NCAA second round | ||||
2005β06 | USC | 19β12 | 11β7 | 5th | NCAA second round | ||||
2006β07 | USC | 17β13 | 10β8 | 5th | |||||
2007β08 | USC | 17β13 | 10β8 | Tβ4th | |||||
2008β09 | USC | 17β15 | 9β9 | Tβ4th | |||||
USC (first stint): | 90β64 (.584) | 52β38 (.578) | |||||||
New Mexico State Aggies (Western Athletic Conference) (2011β2017) | |||||||||
2011β12 | New Mexico State | 6β24 | 3β11 | Tβ7th | |||||
2012β13 | New Mexico State | 15β16 | 7β11 | 8th | |||||
2013β14 | New Mexico State | 11β20 | 7β9 | Tβ6th | |||||
2014β15 | New Mexico State | 22β8 | 13β1 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
2015β16 | New Mexico State | 26β5 | 13β1 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
2016β17 | New Mexico State | 24β7 | 14β0 | 1st | NCAA first round | ||||
New Mexico State: | 104β80 (.565) | 57β33 (.633) | |||||||
USC Trojans (Pac-12 Conference) (2017β2021) | |||||||||
2017β18 | USC | 20β11 | 9β9 | 7th | |||||
2018β19 | USC | 17β13 | 7β11 | Tβ8th | |||||
2019β20 | USC | 17β14 | 8β10 | ||||||
2020β21 | USC | 11β12 | 8β10 | ||||||
USC: | 65β50 (.565) | 36β40 (.474) | |||||||
Total: | 450β317 (.587) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Mark Trakh". USC. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ California Commission on Teacher Credentialing search for Mark Trakh
- ^ "USC brings back Mark Trakh as women's basketball coach". ESPN.com. Associated Press. April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ^ Carter, Donna (January 11, 1989). "MELLOWING : Trakh Works to Soften His Rough Edges While Adding to His Lofty Record at Brea". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ "Mark Trakh". New Mexico State. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ Hamilton, Tom (January 23, 1985). "GIRLS: From Brea-Olinda's polished program to the frustrations at Magnolia, girls basketball is going through growing pains". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ "Mark Trakh Named NM State Women's Basketball Head Coach". New Mexico State. April 8, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ "Mark Trakh Resigns As Women's Basketball Head Coach". USC. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved 30 Sep 2015.
- ^ "Mark Trakh Retires As USC Women's Basketball Head Coach". USC Athletics. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ^ Groves, Jason. "Trakh adds offense to Aggies in second year". Las Cruces Sun-News. Alt URL
- ^ WCC women's basketball record book, pp. 40β44
- 1955 births
- Living people
- American people of Jordanian descent
- American people of Russian descent
- Basketball coaches from New Jersey
- American women's basketball coaches
- California State University, Long Beach alumni
- High school basketball coaches in the United States
- Lakeland Regional High School alumni
- Pepperdine Waves women's basketball coaches
- USC Trojans women's basketball coaches
- New Mexico State Aggies women's basketball coaches
- Fairleigh Dickinson University alumni
- People from Wanaque, New Jersey
- Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey
- Sportspeople from Amman