If the name Mark Trakh sounds familiar to you, it should. He’s not only the next USC women’s basketball coach, but a former USC’s women’s basketball coach, having coached the Women of Troy for five seasons from 2004 to 2009. He went 90-64.
Trakh becomes Lynn Swann’s first coaching hire, coming back to Los Angeles after a six-year stint at New Mexico State, highlighted by three WAC championships.
It took a whopping 49 days for the vacancy to be filled, dating back to Cynthia Cooper-Dyke’s resignation on March 3, following the Trojans’ elimination in the Pac-12 Tournament.