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Mark Morefield's association with Scott Drew dates back 15 years, including the last five seasons at Baylor. Morefield is in his sixth season serving as the Bears' recruiting coordinator and assistant coach, and his duties include handling the offense, supervising individual workouts and scouting. Last season, Morefield and the Bears rose to national prominence when Baylor made its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1988. The Bears finished with a 21-11 overall record after a first-round loss to 18th-ranked Purdue, marking the fourth 20-win season in school history. A proven recruiter, Morefield has twice been named one of the nation's top 25 recruiters by Rivals.com, in 2005 and 2006. Morefield has contributed to the signing of five top 20 national recruiting classes over the past eight years, two at Valparaiso and three at Baylor (No. 17 in 2006, No. 11 in 2005 and No. 10 in 2004 at Baylor; No. 6 in 2001 and No. 13 in 1999 at Valparaiso). A product of the Valparaiso basketball program, Morefield spent 2002-03 as an assistant during Drew's one season as Valpo's head coach. The previous four seasons, the two were fellow assistants on the Valparaiso 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. 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 2002-03 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 those AIA teams included Milo Stovall of Valpo, Dan Dickau of Gonzaga, Ryan Sears of Creighton, Solomon Hughes of California, Billy Knight of UCLA, Reed Rawlings of Samford and Doc Martin of Alabama. 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 an individualized major with a course concentration in sports marketing. He was married to the former Danika Brock in September 2007. |
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