Mark Pope

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Mark Edward Pope (born September 11, 1972) is an American basketball coach and head coach for Utah Valley University. As a former college and professional player, he plays for the Kentucky Wildcats national championship and then Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets from the NBA.

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Careers

The pope was a high school star at Newport High School in Bellevue, WA and played for two years at the University of Washington. He was awarded Pac-10 Freshman of the Year in 1992 after setting a new UW's first season record with 8.1 rebounds per game. He moved to the University of Kentucky and became a member of the NCAA Basketball Champion team in 1996 from Kentucky. The Pope is the second-round pick of the Pacers in the 1996 NBA Draft. The last year of his career was the 2004-05 season when he was cut in training camp with the Nuggets the following season.

The pope was enrolled in a medical school in 2006 at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In 2009, he left medical school and joined Mark Fox staff at the University of Georgia. Fox is an assistant coach when both are at the University of Washington. The next season (2010-11), the Pope moved to Wake Forest University to serve as an assistant under Jeff Bzdelik.

In May 2011, it was announced that the Pope had been hired as an assistant to Dave Rose at Brigham Young University. The Pope replaces Dave Rice, who left BYU to take the position of head coach at UNLV.

In March 2015, it was announced that the Pope had been hired as a new basketball head coach at Utah Valley University, replacing retired Dick Hunsaker.

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Personal life

The pope and his wife, Lee Anne, former David Letterman's talk show host, have four daughters. Lee Anne is the daughter of Lynn Archibald, who was head coach in Utah and an assistant at BYU in the 1990s. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.