| Kristen Dowling | |
| Birth Date: | July 24, 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Upland, California |
| Player Years1: | 2003–2006 |
| Player Team1: | Redlands |
| Coach Years1: | 2005–2006 |
| Coach Team1: | Upland HS |
| Coach Years2: | 2006–2008 |
| Coach Team2: | Pepperdine (GA) |
| Coach Years3: | 2008–2010 |
| Coach Team3: | Cal State Bakersfield (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 2010–2012 |
| Coach Team4: | Pepperdine (assistant) |
| Coach Years5: | 2012–2019 |
| Coach Team5: | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| Coach Years6: | 2019–2023 |
| Coach Team6: | Pepperdine |
| Admin Years1: | 2006–2008 |
| Admin Team1: | Pepperdine (academic advisor) |
| Overall Record: | (college) |
| Tournament Record: | 2–4 (NCAA Division III) |
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Kristen Dowling (born July 24, 1984)[1] is an American basketball coach. From 2019 to 2023, she was the head women's basketball coach at Pepperdine University.[2] She was previously the head women's basketball coach of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas, a program involving students from Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Scripps College in Claremont, California.
After one season as the head coach of the freshman team at her alma mater Upland High School, Dowling was a graduate assistant and academic advisor at Pepperdine for two seasons. She returned to Pepperdine in 2010 as an assistant coach after two seasons as an assistant at Cal State Bakersfield before leaving to be the head coach at Division III program Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.[3] At Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, she rebounded from a 9–16 record in her first season to winning six consecutive Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) regular season titles and a SCIAC Coach of the Year award in 2015.[4]
Dowling was named the head coach at Pepperdine in 2019, marking her third stint with the program.
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| 2002–03 | Redlands | 3 | 37.5% | – | – | 0.667 | 0.333 | – | 1.333 | 2.000 | |
| 2003–04 | Redlands | 15 | 37.5% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 1.400 | 0.533 | – | 0.800 | 1.867 | |
| 2004–05 | Redlands | 25 | 35.7% | – | 62.5% | 1.960 | 0.560 | 0.080 | 0.680 | 2.200 | |
| 2005–06 | Redlands | 19 | 36.1% | 0.0% | 28.6% | 1.211 | 0.632 | 0.000 | 0.947 | 1.579 | |
| Career | 62 | 36.4% | 7.7% | 48.9% | 1.532 | 0.565 | 0.032 | 0.823 | 1.919 |
| 2002–03 | Redlands | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | |
| 2003–04 | Redlands | 15 | 12 | 32 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 28 | |
| 2004–05 | Redlands | 25 | 20 | 56 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 24 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 17 | 55 | |
| 2005–06 | Redlands | 19 | 13 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 30 | |
| Career | 62 | 48 | 132 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 45 | 95 | 35 | 2 | 51 | 119 |