Liz Cope - Men's Basketball Coach - Texas Tech Red Raiders

Liz Cope

Title:
Senior Administrative Assistant to Coach Beard
Email:
liz.cope@ttu.edu
Phone:
(806) 834-7380

Liz Cope is in her sixth season with the Texas Tech basketball program. She is the executive associate to Coach Beard after she served in the same role for Tubby Smith in 2015-16.

Cope serves as a liaison for the coaching staff to various areas within the athletics department and coordinates the recruiting travel arrangements for the coaching staff.

Prior to her arrival at Texas Tech, Cope worked for the Tiger Woods Foundation based in Irvine, California for 11 years. She began as an independent contractor and recently handled the foundation’s auction manager position where she raised over $700,000 for five annual events across the country.

Cope’s previous experience in college athletics include spending two seasons as an assistant to the athletic director along with the travel and purchasing manager for the baseball program at UC Irvine under Dave Serrano from 2005-2007. She managed the daily calendar, operations and annual travel for the athletic director and oversaw all travel arrangements for the baseball team in her position. The Anteaters appeared in the 2007 College World Series.

Cope handled the director of baseball operations duties at Cal State Fullerton during the 2010 and 2011 seasons when Serrano was the head coach of the Titans. In addition to her day-to-day duties with the baseball program, Cope administered the Titan Baseball Elite summer camps with over 500 participants.

Cope earned her bachelor’s degree in communications with a concentration in entertainment and tourism studies from Cal State Fullerton in 2003. She also received a certificate of meeting and event planning from Long Beach State in 2005.

Cope and her husband, Joseph, have been married for 15 years. The couple has two children: Elliot and Emmalyn.