Lynn University '06 (Bachelor of Science in Business)
Georgia State University '10 (Master's in Sports Administration)
First Season
Mark Mathew begins his fourth season as the men’s basketball assistant coach at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
In the 2016-17 season, Mathew helped guide the Hogs to a fourth place tie in the Lone Star Conference, which was ranked the toughest conference in all of Division II Men's Basketball. The team played the semifinals of LSC tournament and received the seventh seed in the NCAA South Central Region. The Javelinas upset the No. 2 seed UT Permian Basin to make it to the Round of 32 - the furtherset in the history of TAMUK Men’s Basketball. The Javelinas won 19 games that season with ten of them being conference games.
The Spring Hill, Kan. native spent the previous year as an assistant coach under 2013-14 NJCAA Region VI Coach of the Year and KBCA Junior College Men’s Coach of the Year Jesse Shaw at Pratt Community College in Pratt, Kansas. Pratt finished the season 22-13, good for third in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) West Conference after being tabbed to finish sixth in the preseason. The Beavers earned four victories in the Region VI Tournament, defeating Labette Community College, then East Conference powerhouse Coffeyville Community College in the quarterfinals, West Conference champion Seward Community College in the semifinals and rival Hutchinson Community College in the championship, clinching the automatic bid into the NJCAA National Tournament.
Prior to Pratt, Mathew was a graduate assistant coach at Georgia State University for two seasons from 2008-10. There, Mathew assisted with planning and coordinating official recruiting visits, scouting breakdown and player development. Focusing on giving the student-athletes a “complete” collegiate experience, he took a huge role in improving the team’s grade point average. Mathew earned a master’s in sports administration from GSU in 2010.
From 2006-08, Mathew was an assistant coach at Butler Community College, focusing on scouting, player development and instilling the team’s strength and conditioning program. He also coordinated the team’s summer camp.
A two-year starter at Cowley College (2002-04), he was a pivotal member of the team that advanced to the Region IV Championship game for the first time in school history. He earned his associate’s degree in 2004.
Following Cowley, Mathew continued his playing career at Lynn University, an NCAA Division II institution that competes in the Sunshine State Conference. Mathew and the Fighting Knights dominated in 2004-05, going 29-6 en route to an SSC Regular Season Championship and No. 1 overall ranking in the NCAA Division II Tournament. The team went on to win the SSC Tournament and NCAA South Region Tournament and advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II Championships.
Mathew graduated with a bachelor’s of science in business in 2006 from Lynn. He has a five-year old daughter, Blayne. He resides in Kingsville.
