Kristen Dowling

Last updated
Kristen Dowling
Current position
TitleHead coach
Team Pepperdine
Conference WCC
Record21–33 (.389)
Biographical details
Born (1984-07-24) July 24, 1984 (age 38)
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)
2010–2012Pepperdine (assistant)
2012–2019 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
2019–presentPepperdine
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2006–2008 Pepperdine (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 who is currently 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.

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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
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)(2012–2019)
2012–13Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 9–165–11T–6th
2013–14Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 24–414–2T–1stNCAA Division III First Round
2014–15Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 24–416–01st NCAA Division III First Round
2015–16Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 23–615–11stNCAA Division III Second Round
2016–17Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 20–913–3T–1stNCAA Division III Second Round
2017–18Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 23–415–1T–1st
2018–19Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 24–315–11st
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps:147–46 (.762)93–19 (.830)
Pepperdine Waves (West Coast Conference)(2019–present)
2019–20 Pepperdine 16–158–106th
2020–21 Pepperdine 5–182–1610th
Pepperdine:21–33 (.389)10–26 (.278)
Total:168–79 (.680)

      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
YEARTeamGPFG%3P%FT%RBGAPGBPGSPGPPG
2002-03Redlands337.5%--0.6670.333-1.3332.000
2003-04Redlands1537.5%14.3%42.9%1.4000.533-0.8001.867
2004-05Redlands2535.7%-62.5%1.9600.5600.0800.6802.200
2005-06Redlands1936.1%0.0%28.6%1.2110.6320.0000.9471.579
Career6236.4%7.7%48.9%1.5320.5650.0320.8231.919
Totals
YEARTeamGPFGFGA3P3PAFTFTAREBABKSTPTS
2002-03Redlands338000021046
2003-04Redlands151232173721801228
2004-05Redlands252056031524491421755
2005-06Redlands19133603414231201830
Career624813211322459535251119

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References

  1. Pepperdine Women's Basketball [@WavesHoops] (July 24, 2020). "A Huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our fearless leader, @CoachKristenD !" (Tweet) via Twitter.
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