Mark Beason enters his second season as a volunteer operations director for the men’s basketball team at Southeastern Louisiana University.
His duties consist of team travel arrangements and some administrative tasks. He also serves as a health and PE teacher and the head girls’ basketball coach at Fontainebleau High School in Mandeville, LA
Beason was most recently an assistant women’s basketball coach at Nicholls State University. He was part of the two most successful campaigns in Nicholls women’s basketball history as the team finished 17-14 overall in 2014 and 19-11 overall in 2013, compiling an 11-7 record in the Southland Conference during both seasons.
The 19 victories is a single-season program record while the 11 Southland wins matched a program best. He was also a member of the staff that placed the first player in Nicholls women’s basketball history on the All-Southland Conference first team as sophomore Emani White earned the honor. He handled on-floor coaching, recruiting, fund raising, academics and all administrative duties while with the Lady Colonels.
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, compiling 257 wins in his career.
Beason was 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.
His 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.
He has coached both boy’s and girl’s AAU teams and won various team titles over the years. 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 20 years, Jennifer, and the couple has two wonderful children, Jacob (18) and Allison (13). The family resides in Covington, La.
