Pepperdine University Athletics

After spending a number of years on the other side of the PCH Cup rivalry, Emily Ben-Jumbo spent the 2021-22 season on the other side as an assistant coach with the Pepperdine women’s basketball team.
 
The 2021-22 school year was Ben-Jumbo’s eighth in the West Coast Conference. She was an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount in 2019-20 and 2020-21 and was the program’s Director of Operations in 2018-19. She’s also an alum and former student-athlete with the Lions.
 
During her coaching tenure at LMU, she helped the Lions to their first postseason appearance in 14 years when the team played in the 2019 WNIT. In 2021, she mentored one Lion to all-conference honors, while another received WCC All-Tournament honors, the school’s first since 2013.
 
Ben-Jumbo also has a wealth of coaching experience at the youth and high school levels. She is a National Academy of Sports Medicine-certified personal trainer with a specialization in performance enhancement and corrective exercises.
 
She played professionally in Luxembourg (2016-17) and Argentina (2017) and averaged a double-double in both leagues. She helped lead her team to the league finals in Argentina.
 
Ben-Jumbo earned her master’s degree in business management and entrepreneurship from Durham University in England in 2016. She played for the women’s basketball team that season, which was the top-ranked squad in the conference and reached the finals.
 
Originally from Tualatin, Ore., Ben-Jumbo graduated from Loyola Marymount in 2015 with a degree in communication. She played 119 games in her four-year career, which ranked her among the program’s top-10 all-time in games played. Among other accolades, she received All-WCC honorable mention notice as a senior in 2015 and also earned a spot on the WCC’s All-Academic team that year. In 2014, she received the WCC’s individual sportsmanship award. Ben-Jumbo was team captain beginning as a sophomore.