TCU women’s basketball added veteran coach Charity Elliott, bringing nearly 400 career wins and a long record of program-building success to Fort Worth.
FORT WORTH - TCU women’s basketball just added serious coaching muscle to Mark Campbell’s bench.
Charity Elliott, a 24-year college head coaching veteran with 387 career wins, is joining the Horned Frogs as an assistant coach.
For a TCU program trying to keep pushing upward under Campbell, this isn’t just another staff hire. It’s a move that brings experience, credibility and a proven program-builder into the room.
Elliott arrives in Fort Worth after five seasons as the head coach at Point Loma Nazarene, where she helped turn the Sea Lions into a postseason regular.
Point Loma improved its win total in each of her first four seasons and captured both the PacWest regular-season and tournament championships in 2024-25.
The program also won an NCAA-era school-record 25 games during her run and reached three straight NCAA Tournaments.
That’s not a fluke. That’s a résumé.
Before Point Loma, Elliott spent nine seasons leading Loyola Marymount.
Her rebuild there eventually produced a 2018-19 WNIT appearance, the program’s first postseason trip in 15 years.
She also scored notable wins over Arizona, Oregon State, UCLA and BYU, proving she could punch up against bigger-name opponents.
Her best stretch may have come at UC San Diego, where she went 127-34 across five seasons with a .789 winning percentage.
The Tritons won more than 20 games every year under Elliott, claimed three conference titles and reached four NCAA West Regionals.
Her 2011-12 team went 30-3, opened the season 26-0 and held the No. 1 national ranking for seven weeks.
Elliott also brings playing credibility. She began her college career at Rice before transferring to Missouri State, where she helped the Bears go 31-3 and reach the 1992 Final Four.
TCU isn’t adding someone learning on the fly. The Horned Frogs are adding a coach who has built winners, developed programs and seen just about everything the college game can throw at her.
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