Utah State's Raegan Pebley (Pee-blee) enters her fifth season as head coach of the Aggie women's basketball program. Pebley was named the head coach at Utah State University on May 1, 2002, becoming the first women's basketball coach at USU in 16 years. She immediately went to work, spending the 2003 season recruiting and rebuilding Utah State's women's basketball program for its inaugural season in 2003-04. The Aggies reinstated women's basketball on March 5, 2002, after the program had been dropped following the 1987 season.

Despite being the third-youngest team in the nation in their inaugural season, Pebley's team soon saw the fruits of their labors as they went 5-13 in the Big West Conference and earned a spot in the Big West's postseason tournament. Pebley helped the momentum carry over from USU's freshman campaign into its sophomore season as her team doubled its win total from the previous season with nine games remaining on the schedule.

Most coaches would have been satisfied doubling their win total, but Pebley didn't rest on her laurels, coaching the Aggies within one win of tripling their 2004 total (5-22) and guiding them to their second straight Big West Tournament appearance.

Pebley's 14 wins in 2004-05 tied her with Fern Gardner (1975) and Cindy Perkins (1979) for the second-highest single-season win total in school history. With 22 career wins, Pebley is third on the career coaching wins list.

While the Aggies struggled to a 3-24 overall and 2-14 conference mark in 2006, their first season in the Western Athletic Conference, year two in the WAC holds promise for improvement.

Under Pebley's direction six players have earned all-conference honors, including two honorable mention selections in 2004 and three honorable mention honorees and consecutive all-freshman team picks in 2005 and 2006.

Student-athletes have also flourished off the court with Pebley at the helm. Seven players earned academic all-conference honors in 2006, the most under Pebley's tenure. Five players were awarded academic all-conference accolades in 2005, with two earning the award in 2004.

Additionally, individual career and single-season records have fallen in Pebley's system. Brittany Hagen became the USU record holder for career three-pointers last year and enters her senior season with 83 treys. Jessica Freeman became the USU career shot block leader in 2004-05 and finished her career with 127. Ali (Aird) Marchant shot 59.7 percent from the floor in 2003-04 to break the single-season field-goal percentage mark and left USU as the career field-goal percentage record holder, hitting 53.5 percent of her shots.

A former player for the Utah Starzz of the WNBA, Pebley was an assistant coach for four years at George Mason (1997-99) and Colorado State (1999-2001) before coming to Utah State. She helped guide CSU to a 48-17 record during her two-year stint with the Rams. She was a four-year letterwinner at Colorado before being a third-round draft pick by the Utah Starzz in 1997. She also spent one season with the Eastern Division Champion Cleveland Rockers in 1998.

Pebley, whose maiden name is Scott, grew up in Orem, Utah and graduated from Mountain View High School, where she was part of two 4A Utah State Championship teams from 1992-93. She earned All-America honors and was a two-time state player of the year at Mountain View.

Coaching has been in her family for sometime now as her father, Ray Scott, has coached women's basketball for more than 30 years. He got his start in the late 70's and early 80's with the Dallas Diamonds and New Orleans Pride of the old ABL. He has since coached at almost every level of women's basketball and is currently the head coach at Princeton High School in Princeton, Texas.

Pebley is married to Keith, who is high school history teacher at Fast Forward Charter School and an assistant football coach at Logan High School. They have one son, Joseph, who was born July 9, 2003, and a daughter, Harper, who was born Jan. 30, 2007.