Mark Trakh
| Sport(s) | Women's basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | USC |
| Conference | Pac-12 |
| Record | 90–64 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
May 31, 1955 Amman, Jordan |
| Alma mater | Long Beach State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1979–1980 | Western HS (boys' sophomore) |
| 1980–1993 | Brea Olinda HS |
| 1993–2004 | Pepperdine |
| 2004–2009 | USC |
| 2011–2017 | New Mexico State |
| 2017–present | USC |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 354–45 (.887) (high school) 390–266 (.595) (college) |
| Tournaments | 2–7 (NCAA) 0–3 (WNIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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Mark Ozeir Trakh (born May 31, 1955) is a Jordanian-American college basketball coach who is currently in his second stint as women's basketball head coach at the University of Southern California (USC). 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 in 2017.
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.
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 1979–80 season before becoming girls' varsity head coach at Brea Olinda High School, a position he would hold from 1980 to 1993. Inheriting a program that won only four games in the previous two seasons, Trakh had a 354–45 overall record with four state titles (1989, 1991–93). At Brea Olinda, Trakh also was an English teacher.
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