New Pepperdine Head Coaches Embark on First Season

Photo courtesy of Roger Horne and Richard Davis

For the second-straight year, Pepperdine welcomes multiple new head coaches to the athletics staff. Both Kristen Dowling of Women’s Basketball and Sylvia Mosqueda of Men’s and Women’s Cross Country/Track have been on staff at Pepperdine in previous years and have head-coaching experience.

Dowling gears up for her first Division I coaching opportunity

Dowling graduated from the University of Redlands in 2004. As a senior on the women’s basketball team, she took the Bulldogs to their second-ever Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic title.

Dowling accepted a graduate assistant job at Pepperdine in 2006 until 2008 before she took her first…