Kristen Dowling

American basketball coach
Kristen Dowling
Biographical details
Born (1984-07-24) July 24, 1984 (age 39)
Upland, California
Playing career
2003–2006Redlands
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2005–2006Upland HS
2006–2008Pepperdine (GA)
2008–2010Cal State Bakersfield (assistant)
2010–2012Pepperdine (assistant)
2012–2019Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
2019–2023Pepperdine
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2006–2008Pepperdine (academic advisor)
Head coaching record
Overall168–79 (.680) (college)
Tournaments2–4 (NCAA Division III)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • 6 SCIAC regular season (2014–2019)
  • 4 SCIAC tournament (2014–2017)
Awards
  • SCIAC Coach of the Year (2015)

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.

Coaching career

After 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

Statistics overview
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)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Career statistics

Source:[5]

Ratios
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
Totals
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

  1. ^ Pepperdine Women's Basketball [@WavesHoops] (July 24, 2020). "A Huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our fearless leader, @CoachKristenD !" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b "Dowling Returns as Women's Basketball Coach". Pepperdine University Athletics. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Kristen Dowling Named New Women's Basketball Coach". Claremont Mudd Scripps. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  4. ^ "2015 SCIAC Women's Basketball All-Conference Team". SCIAC Athletics. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  5. ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-20.

External links

  • Kristen Dowling on Twitter
  • Pepperdine Waves profile
  • USA Basketball profile
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# denotes interim head coach