Kristen Dowling (born July 24, 1984)[1] is an American basketball coach. From 2019 to 2023, she was the head women's basketball coach at Pepperdine University.[2] She was previously the head women's basketball coach of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas, a program involving students from Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Scripps College in Claremont, California.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 24, 1984 Upland, California |
| Playing career | |
| 2003–2006 | Redlands |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2005–2006 | Upland HS |
| 2006–2008 | Pepperdine (GA) |
| 2008–2010 | Cal State Bakersfield (assistant) |
| 2010–2012 | Pepperdine (assistant) |
| 2012–2019 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| 2019–2023 | Pepperdine |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2006–2008 | Pepperdine (academic advisor) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 168–79 (.680) (college) |
| Tournaments | 2–4 (NCAA Division III) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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| Awards | |
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Coaching career
editAfter one season as the head coach of the freshman team at her alma mater Upland High School, Dowling was a graduate assistant and academic advisor at Pepperdine for two seasons. She returned to Pepperdine in 2010 as an assistant coach after two seasons as an assistant at Cal State Bakersfield before leaving to be the head coach at Division III program Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.[3] At Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, she rebounded from a 9–16 record in her first season to winning six consecutive Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) regular season titles and a SCIAC Coach of the Year award in 2015.[4]
Dowling was named the head coach at Pepperdine in 2019, marking her third stint with the program.[2]
Head coaching record
edit| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2012–2019) | |||||||||
| 2012–13 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 9–16 | 5–11 | T–6th | |||||
| 2013–14 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 24–4 | 14–2 | T–1st | NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
| 2014–15 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 24–4 | 16–0 | 1st | NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
| 2015–16 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 23–6 | 15–1 | 1st | NCAA Division III Second Round | ||||
| 2016–17 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 20–9 | 13–3 | T–1st | NCAA Division III Second Round | ||||
| 2017–18 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 23–4 | 15–1 | T–1st | |||||
| 2018–19 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 24–3 | 15–1 | 1st | |||||
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps: | 147–46 (.762) | 93–19 (.830) | |||||||
| Pepperdine Waves (West Coast Conference) (2019–2023) | |||||||||
| 2019–20 | Pepperdine | 16–15 | 8–10 | 6th | |||||
| 2020–21 | Pepperdine | 5–18 | 2–16 | 10th | |||||
| 2021–22 | Pepperdine | 8–17 | 4–11 | ||||||
| 2022–23 | Pepperdine | 11–19 | 5–13 | ||||||
| Pepperdine: | 40–69 (.367) | 19–50 (.275) | |||||||
| Total: | 187–115 (.619) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Career statistics
editSource:[5]
| YEAR | Team | GP | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RBG | APG | BPG | SPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–03 | Redlands | 3 | 37.5% | – | – | 0.667 | 0.333 | – | 1.333 | 2.000 |
| 2003–04 | Redlands | 15 | 37.5% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 1.400 | 0.533 | – | 0.800 | 1.867 |
| 2004–05 | Redlands | 25 | 35.7% | – | 62.5% | 1.960 | 0.560 | 0.080 | 0.680 | 2.200 |
| 2005–06 | Redlands | 19 | 36.1% | 0.0% | 28.6% | 1.211 | 0.632 | 0.000 | 0.947 | 1.579 |
| Career | 62 | 36.4% | 7.7% | 48.9% | 1.532 | 0.565 | 0.032 | 0.823 | 1.919 |
| YEAR | Team | GP | FG | FGA | 3P | 3PA | FT | FTA | REB | A | BK | ST | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–03 | Redlands | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2003–04 | Redlands | 15 | 12 | 32 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 28 |
| 2004–05 | Redlands | 25 | 20 | 56 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 24 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 17 | 55 |
| 2005–06 | Redlands | 19 | 13 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 30 |
| Career | 62 | 48 | 132 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 45 | 95 | 35 | 2 | 51 | 119 |
References
edit- ^ Pepperdine Women's Basketball [@WavesHoops] (July 24, 2020). "A Huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our fearless leader, @CoachKristenD !" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b "Dowling Returns as Women's Basketball Coach". Pepperdine University Athletics. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "Kristen Dowling Named New Women's Basketball Coach". Claremont Mudd Scripps. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "2015 SCIAC Women's Basketball All-Conference Team". SCIAC Athletics. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-20.