Mark Beason is in his second season as an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team at Nicholls State University. His duties consist of on floor coaching, all team film work and scouting, recruiting, and most team administrative tasks.
Coach Beason was part of the most successful campaign in Nicholls women’s history as the team finished 19-11 overall and 11-7 in the Southland Conference in 2012-13. The 19 victories is a single-season program record while the 11 Southland wins matched a program best.
Prior to arriving in Thibodaux, Beason spent 24 years in the high school ranks of Louisiana basketball with 15 of those seasons as head coach of both boys (11 years) and girls (four years) basketball teams where he compiled 257 wins in his career. Beason was most recently the girl’s head basketball coach at 5A Northshore High School in Slidell, La. from 2008-12. The Lady Panthers registered a 97-39 record over that four year span with three state playoff appearances, two bi-district championships, one regional championship and the school’s first ever appearance in the Top 28 Tournament in 2012. The 2011-12 team was undefeated District 6-5A champions and a state 5A semi-finalist with an overall record of 32-4. For his efforts, Beason was named the Times Picayune’s Metro New Orleans large school Coach of the Year for 2012.
Throughout his career, Beason has coached numerous sports at C. L. Ganus High School, Buras High School, St. Paul’s High School, Chalmette High School, Northlake Christian School and Northshore High School.
Beason holds a B.A. in political science with a minor in history and an alternative educational certification in social studies and physical education from the University of New Orleans (’92). He has 27 hours of graduate study from Louisiana State University in liberal arts.
Beason, a native of New Orleans, is married to his wife of 19 years, Jennifer, and the couple has two wonderful children, Jacob (17) and Allison (12). The family resides in Covington, La.
