:Mark Trakh
{{short description|Jordanian college basketball coach (born 1955)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|5|31}}
| birth_place = Amman, Jordan
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| alma_mater = Long Beach State (1981)
| coach_years1 = 1979–1980
| coach_team1 = Western HS (boys' sophomore)
| coach_years2 = 1980–1993
| coach_team2 = Brea Olinda HS
| coach_years3 = 1993–2004
| coach_team3 = Pepperdine
| coach_years4 = 2004–2009
| coach_team4 = USC
| coach_years5 = 2011–2017
| coach_team5 = New Mexico State
| coach_years6 = 2017–2021
| coach_team6 = USC
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| overall_record = 354–45 ({{winpct|354|45}}) (high school)
450–317 ({{Winning percentage|450|317}}) (college)
| tournament_record = 2–7 (NCAA)
0–3 (WNIT)
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- 4× WCC regular season (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003)
- 2× WCC tournament (2002, 2003)
- 3× WAC regular season (2015–2017)
- 2× WAC tournament (2015, 2016)
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Mark Ozeir Trakh (born May 31, 1955)[https://educator.ctc.ca.gov/esales_enu/start.swe?SWECmd=GotoView&SWEView=CTC+Search+View+Web California Commission on Teacher Credentialing] search for Mark Trakh is a Jordanian college basketball coach who had been the women's basketball head coach at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2004 to 2009 and 2017 to 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/19212773/usc-brings-back-mark-trakh-women-basketball-coach |title=USC brings back Mark Trakh as women's basketball coach |agency=Associated Press |work=ESPN.com |date=April 21, 2017 |accessdate=April 22, 2017}}
Early life and education
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-11-sp-341-story.html|title=MELLOWING : Trakh Works to Soften His Rough Edges While Adding to His Lofty Record at Brea|author=Carter, Donna|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 11, 1989|access-date=March 3, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/trakh_mark00.html|title=Mark Trakh|accessdate=March 3, 2017|publisher=USC}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmstatesports.com/coaches.aspx?rc=670&path=wbb|title=Mark Trakh|publisher=New Mexico State|accessdate=March 3, 2017}}
Coaching career
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,{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-23-sp-14593-story.html|title=GIRLS: From Brea-Olinda's polished program to the frustrations at Magnolia, girls basketball is going through growing pains|date=January 23, 1985|author=Hamilton, Tom|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=March 3, 2017}} Trakh had a 354–45 overall record with four state titles (1989, 1991–93). 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 90–64 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/040809aaa.html |title=Mark Trakh Resigns As Women's Basketball Head Coach |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826024358/http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/040809aaa.html |archivedate=August 26, 2009 |publisher=USC |accessdate=March 4, 2017 |url-status=dead }}
On April 8, 2011, New Mexico State hired Trakh as head coach.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmstatesports.com/news/2011/4/8/205132622.aspx|title=Mark Trakh Named NM State Women's Basketball Head Coach|publisher=New Mexico State|accessdate=March 3, 2017|date=April 8, 2011}} 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 2016–17 season.
Trakh announced his retirement from coaching on April 21, 2021.{{cite web |title=Mark Trakh Retires As USC Women's Basketball Head Coach |url=https://usctrojans.com/news/2021/4/21/womens-basketball-mark-trakh-retires-as-usc-womens-basketball-head-coach.aspx |website=USC Athletics |access-date=10 May 2021}}
Personal life
Mark Trakh's younger brother Maz is also a basketball coach;{{cite web|url=http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-sports/ci_20929982/trakh-adds-offense-aggies-second-year|title=Trakh adds offense to Aggies in second year|author=Groves, Jason|work=Las Cruces Sun-News}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20170305035545/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-25/sports/sns-mct-trakh-adds-offense-to-aggies-in-second-year-20120625_1_maz-trakh-coaches-aggies Alt URL] at the time of Mark's return to USC, Maz was an assistant with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
Head coaching record
This section covers Trakh's head coaching record in NCAA Division I.
Source for Pepperdine records:[https://wcc-platform-secure-prod.silverchalice.co/v3/files/57f3e9dde4b0636973dd8ec2 WCC women's basketball record book]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, pp. 40–44
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=Pepperdine Waves
|startyear=1993
|conference=West Coast Conference
|endyear=2004
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1993–94
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 14–12
| conference = 6–8
| confstanding = T–5th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1994–95
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 10–16
| conference = 4–10
| confstanding = T–6th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1995–96
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 15–13
| conference = 7–7
| confstanding = T–4th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1996–97
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 15–13
| conference = 6–8
| confstanding = 5th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1997–98
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 21–10
| conference = 10–4
| confstanding = 2nd
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1998–99
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 21–9
| conference = 11–3
| confstanding = T–1st
| postseason = WNIT First Round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1999–2000
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 21–10
| conference = 12–2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA first round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2000–01
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 20–11
| conference = 10–4
| confstanding = T–3rd
| postseason = WNIT First Round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2001–02
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 23–8
| conference = 11–3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA first round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2002–03
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 22–8
| conference = 12–2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA first round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2003–04
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 17–13
| conference = 10–4
| confstanding = T–2nd
| postseason = WNIT First Round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Pepperdine
| overall = 199–123 ({{Winning percentage|199|123}})
| confrecord = 99–55 ({{Winning percentage|99|55}})
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=USC Trojans
|startyear=2004
|conference=Pacific-10 Conference
|endyear=2009
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2004–05
| name = USC
| overall = 20–11
| conference = 12–6
| confstanding = T–4th
| postseason = NCAA second round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2005–06
| name = USC
| overall = 19–12
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason = NCAA second round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2006–07
| name = USC
| overall = 17–13
| conference = 10–8
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2007–08
| name = USC
| overall = 17–13
| conference = 10–8
| confstanding = T–4th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2008–09
| name = USC
| overall = 17–15
| conference = 9–9
| confstanding = T–4th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = USC (first stint)
| overall = 90–64 ({{Winning percentage|90|64}})
| confrecord = 52–38 ({{Winning percentage|52|38}})
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=New Mexico State Aggies
|startyear=2011
|conference=Western Athletic Conference
|endyear=2017
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2011–12
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 6–24
| conference = 3–11
| confstanding = T–7th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2012–13
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 15–16
| conference = 7–11
| confstanding = 8th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2013–14
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 11–20
| conference = 7–9
| confstanding = T–6th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2014–15
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 22–8
| conference = 13–1
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA first round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2015–16
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 26–5
| conference = 13–1
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA first round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2016–17
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 24–7
| conference = 14–0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA first round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = New Mexico State
| overall = 104–80 ({{Winning percentage|104|80}})
| confrecord = 57–33 ({{Winning percentage|57|33}})
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name = USC Trojans
|startyear = 2017
|conference = Pac-12 Conference
|endyear = 2021
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2017–18
| name = USC
| overall = 20–11
| conference = 9–9
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2018–19
| name = USC
| overall = 17–13
| conference = 7–11
| confstanding = T–8th
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| championship =
| season = 2019–20
| name = USC
| overall = 17–14
| conference = 8–10
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2020–21
| name = USC
| overall = 11–12
| conference = 8–10
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = USC
| overall = 65–50 ({{Winning percentage|65|50}})
| confrecord = 36–40 ({{Winning percentage|36|40}})
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{{CBB Yearly Record End
|overall= 450–317 ({{Winning percentage|450|317}})
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