Ruthy Hebard is back at TCU as an assistant coach, giving Mark Campbell another proven winner as the Horned Frogs chase more titles.
TCU women’s basketball just brought back a familiar name with championship DNA.
Former WNBA forward Ruthy Hebard is returning to Fort Worth as an assistant coach on Mark Campbell’s TCU staff ahead of the 2026-27 season.
It’s a full-circle move for Hebard, who was part of Campbell’s first Horned Frogs staff in 2023-24 and now steps away from professional basketball to coach full-time.
That’s not just a staff addition. That’s a power move.
Hebard isn’t some résumé filler. She was the No. 8 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft, played four seasons with the Chicago Sky, won a WNBA title, and built one of the nastiest college careers Oregon has ever seen.
Now she’s back with the coach who helped shape her into one of the best power forwards in the country.
Campbell and Hebard go way back. He recruited her out of Fairbanks, Alaska, while he was at Oregon, where Hebard became a four-time All-Pac-12 player, three-time All-American and two-time winner of the Katrina McClain Award.
She also helped push Oregon to its first Final Four in 2019 alongside Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally.
That trio became WNBA Draft history in 2020, when all three went in the top 10.
Now Hebard’s job is different. Instead of owning the paint, she’ll help develop the players who do.
TCU already knows what her coaching impact looks like. During Campbell’s first season in Fort Worth, Hebard helped the Horned Frogs engineer one of college basketball’s loudest turnarounds.
TCU went from 8-23 before Campbell arrived to 21-12, opening the season 14-0 and earning its first postseason berth in five years.
That was not a gentle rebuild. That was a program jolted back to life.
Hebard worked closely with TCU’s post players, practiced daily, assisted with scouting and film work, and helped create the kind of standard Campbell has since turned into a monster.
Over the last two seasons, TCU has gone 66-10, won three Big 12 titles, made back-to-back Elite Eight runs and finished No. 6 nationally in consecutive years.
That’s no longer a cute story. That’s a national power.
And Hebard fits exactly what TCU is selling.
She knows Campbell’s system. She knows the expectations. She knows what elite player development looks like because she lived it.
At Oregon, she became the program and Pac-12 career leader in field goal percentage at 65.1 percent, set the NCAA record with 33 consecutive made field goals, and finished with 2,368 points and more than 1,000 rebounds.
That kind of credibility walks into a gym before she says a word.
For TCU, this hire is about keeping the edge sharp. Campbell already has associate head coach Xavier Lopez, assistants Charity Elliott and Nolan Wilson, director of operations Hanna Hudson, and recruiting operations director Leah Sopak in place.
Adding Hebard gives the Horned Frogs another coach who understands winning at the highest level from every angle.
TCU women’s basketball has spent the last two years proving it belongs among the sport’s heavyweights.
Ruthy Hebard’s return makes one thing clear. The Horned Frogs aren’t satisfied with arriving. They’re trying to stay dangerous.
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