Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach | Fourth Season
- Email:
- hanna.howard@tcu.edu
Hanna Howard is in her eighth season as associate head coach and defensive coordinator at TCU in 2021-22, while entering her 12th season alongside head coach Raegan Pebley on the sidelines.
| THE HANNA HOWARD FILE | |
| Hometown | Ashland, Ore. |
| Education | Portland • Bachelor's Concordia Irvine • Master's |
| Family | Son: Mason Daughter: Maya |
| COACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| Season | School, Position |
| 2014-present | TCU, associate head coach |
| 2013-14 | Fresno State, associate head coach |
| 2012-13 | Fresno State, assistant coach |
| 2010-12 | Utah State, assistant coach |
| 2007-10 | UC San Diego, assistant coach |
| PLAYING EXPERIENCE | |
| Season | School |
| 2001-05 | Portland |
The duo has helped their teams reach the postseason in eight of the last 11 years, including WNIT Semifinals appearances in both 2017-18 and 2018-19.
The Frogs have been on an upward trend over the past four seasons, recording 20+ wins in three of those four seasons, which included notching a 24-11 mark in 2018-19 - just one win shy of the school's record 25 victories (2000-01, 2003-04). In addition, TCU also set program records with 17 home victories in 2018-19 and 13 Big 12 Conference wins in 2019-20. The Horned Frogs also managed to register its most road wins in the Pebley era, notching nine victories on the road in 2019-20.
TCU collected its first national ranking in 10 years during the 2017-18 campaign, as well, coming in as high as No. 22. The Frogs then made its way back into the WBCA Top-25 rankings during the 2019-20 season, coming in at No. 25, the week of Feb. 25.
Howard's defensive influence quickly caught on at TCU as the Horned Frogs' 338 steals in 2014-15 were the fifth most in program The Frogs' defense led the Big 12 by forcing 18.3 turnovers per game that season, en route to what was then a program-best, third-place finish in Big 12 play. Senior Chelsea Prince set the TCU single-season steals record (103) en route to earning Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2014-15, marking the fourth straight season that one of Howard's student-athletes earned conference defensive player of the year honors.
In 2019-20, TCU ranked second in the Big 12 with 274 steals and notched a conference-best 9.4 steals per game. Howard's defense also ranked 19th in the country, second in the Big 12, giving up just an opponent three-point field goal percentage of just .273 on the year.
The Horned Frogs have posted 149 blocks or more in four of the past five seasons, which ranks all four campaigns among TCU's all-time top-10 list. TCU's 189 blocked shots in 2018-19 ranks sixth-most in school history. Individually, senior Jordan Moore ranked second in the Big 12 with 79 blocked shots that season and finished her collegiate career with 243 rejections, good for the third-most in program history. Kianna Ray (2016-20) registered 133 total blocks, which ranks fifth-most in school history.
Prior to coming to TCU, Howard spent two seasons with Pebley at Fresno State, where the Bulldogs made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.
Howard's defensive game plan paid dividends at Fresno State, as the Bulldogs ranked third in the country in steals (12.9 ppg) during the 2012-13 campaign and set a school and Mountain West record with 426 total steals on the season. Fresno State guards Ki-Ki Moore, Taylor Thompson and Rosie Moult ranked one, two and three in the Mountain West in steals en route to setting the school and league steal records.
Moore was named the 2012-13 Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year and Moult was named with her on the Mountain West All-Defensive team.
Howard joined the Utah State coaching staff in the summer of 2010 and helped lead the Aggies to back-to-back WNIT appearances in her two seasons in Logan. In her last year at USU, Howard helped direct the Aggies to a school record 21 wins and senior forward Ashlee Brown was named the 2012 WAC Defensive Player of the Year.
Prior to joining Pebley at Utah State, Howard began her career as an assistant at UC San Diego, where the Tritons compiled a 77-22 overall record and rose to as high as No. 3 nationally. Howard starred collegiately at the University of Portland.
Howard earned her master's degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University, Irvine in February 2010. She has two kids, Mason and Maya.
