Staff Directory
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- Assistant Coach - Sports Performance
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Luke Toburen enters his first season with Pepperdine men's basketball in 2026-27 as assistant coach - sports performance.
In his role, Toburen will oversee the men's basketball program’s performance and strength & conditioning. Toburen spent the past four seasons as director of basketball performance at Longwood, bringing prior experience with Coach Aldrich.
Prior to Longwood, Toburen served on the sports performance staff at the University of Virginia. Toburen trained under Mike Curtis, noted to be one of the leading basketball-focused sports performance coaches in the country. Toburen assisted in all aspects of the team’s performance training program in Charlottesville.
He previosuly served as the Director of Sport Performance at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy from 2018-20. There, he put together the school's first sports performance program and coordinated all aspects of strength and conditioning for 23 varsity sports teams. Toburen also spent one season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, Grove City College in 2017-18.
Toburen graduated from Grove City with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 2016 and earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology from Virginia in 2022.
