Mark Jensen
	Assistant Coach mjensen@whittier.edu

Fourth year assistant coach Mark Jensen is no stranger to Whittier College. He graduated in 2000 with a degree in History and shortly thereafter married his wife Emily. Coach Jensen and his wife have two young boys, Devon (5) and Drew (3), and a little girl, Jordan (1). He played two years of junior college basketball at Cypress College before transferring to Whittier in 1998, where he finished his playing career under Coach Carter.

In 2008 Jensen was named the Director of Intramurals & Recreation in addition to his duties with the men's basketball team.

Coach Jensen began pursuing coaching right after completing his degree at Whittier in the spring of 2000. He returned to Cypress to help coach the men's team in 2000-2001 and then moved with his wife to Eastern Washington University, outside of Spokane to pursue a Master's Degree in History. While in Washington, he was an assistant to former N.B.A. All-Star Craig Ehlo at Rogers High School. He credits coach Ehlo for influencing the way he approaches teaching the details of the game. In 2002, Coach Jensen returned to southern California and began coaching at Rio Hondo College under head coach Steve Hebert. He's been there for the last three years and now brings that experience to Whittier's men's program. He is extremely excited about the opportunity to coach at his alma mater and is positive about the possibilities and progress of this year's team.

Jensen earned his Master's of Education in 2007 from Whittier.