There will be two new faces on the New Mexico State sidelines this season. The Aggies welcomed Mark Trakh and Blair Quinn to Las Cruces earlier this year. Trakh takes over as the women’s basketball head coach while Quinn leads the Aggies as the soccer head coach.

Trakh has nearly 30 years of head coaching experience, including 16 at Southern California and Pepperdine. He served as the head coach at USC from 2004-09, where he compiled a 90-64 overall record. In his first two seasons, he guided the Women of Troy to their first NCAA appearances in seven years, as the team advanced to the second round in both 2005 and 2006.

Quinn became just the second soccer head coach in NMSU school history. He spent the previous four seasons as an assistant coach at Arizona State. There, he helped guide the Sun Devils to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2009 and 2010 for only the second time in school history.