Sept. 2, 2003
WACO, Texas - Baylor University has added Mark Morefield to its men's basketball coaching staff, head coach Scott Drew announced Tuesday.
"Mark has been a part of our program at Valpo for the last nine years," Drew said. "During that time he has matured into one of the top young recruiters in the nation. In the future he will help bring some very exciting players to Baylor University."
Morefield will serve as the Bears' recruiting coordinator and assistant coach, and his duties will include handling the offense, supervising individual workouts and scouting.
Drew, who was hired at Baylor last month, hired Morefield from Valparaiso, where Drew was head coach last season. The previous four seasons the two were fellow assistants on the Valpo staff of Homer Drew, Scott's father.
Morefield logged a total of nine seasons with Valparaiso basketball, the last five as an assistant coach. In those five years, Valpo went to three NCAA Tournaments and one NIT. Morefield served as Valpo's administrative assistant coach in 1998-99 and as a student assistant during the 1996-97 and 1997-98 campaigns after working as a team manager as a freshman and sophomore.
Morefield and his fellow Valparaiso assistants helped produce what Hoop Scoop magazine called the nation's sixth best recruiting class in 2001, the 13th best in 1999 and the 19th best in 2003. He was part of the staff that guided Valpo to Mid-Continent Conference regular season championships and tournament championships in 1998-99 and 2001-02, as well as regular season titles in 2000-01 and 2002-2003 and a tournament title in 2000.
In the summer of 1999, Morefield was an assistant coach for an Athletes In Action team that toured Poland and Croatia. Morefield was also an assistant coach for an AIA team that played on the Ivory Coast of Africa in 2001. Players on these AIA teams included Milo Stovall of Valpo, Dan Dickau of Gonzaga, Ryan Sears of Creighton, Solomon Hughes of California and Billy Knight of UCLA.
In addition to his duties at Valpo in 1997-98, Morefield served as freshman basketball coach and varsity assistant at Michigan City High School in Indiana. In the summers of 1996 and 1997, he worked basketball camps at Notre Dame and Michigan. Morefield also served as the director of the Valparaiso boys basketball camps. Morefield graduated from Valparaiso in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in individualized major with a course concentration in sports marketing.
