Todd Clark begins his second season at the helm of the Lady Rangers and is the fifth coach in the history of Northwestern Lady Ranger basketball.

Clark came to Northwestern last season after being the top assistant coach at NCAA Division I University of Texas - San Antonio. During his two-year stint at UTSA, he helped turn the program around from seven wins in 1999-2000 to 16 wins in both the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 seasons and a third place finish in the Southland Conference.

From 1997-2000, Clark was the assistant coach at Cowley County (Kan.) Community College. In those three seasons, Cowley produced an outstanding 91-9 record and took the Jayhawk East Conference championship each year.

Clark began his college coaching career as the head women’s coach at Kansas Newman University from 1989-1993 and has held assistant positions at Pratt (Kan.) Community College and Colby (Kan.) Community College.

Despite last season’s rocky road, Clark has an optimistic view of this year. "We are really looking forward to the challenges a new season brings," he stated. "We hope that our athletic ability and enthusiasm for the game will help us become a more competitive team. I believe that we have the opportunity to do good things this season, but we will have to develop a lot of team characteristics such as mental toughness and belief in one another if we want to be competitive in the best NAIA conference."

Clark, a 1986 graduate of Kansas Wesleyan University, holds a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education and received his master’s degree in 1996 from Wichita State University in Sports Administration.

Coach Clark and his wife Candy have a son, Cevin, age 2.

Clarkson begins her first season as a student assistant coach. She was an outstanding college player but had to end her career early due to amassed knee injuries.

Clarkson, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, began her college basketball career at Phillips University in nearby Enid, Oklahoma where she played from 1997-1998. The next season she attended North Ark Community College and was ranked No. 2 nationally in scoring average with an impressive 28 points per game. Being heavily recruited by NCAA Division I institutions, Clarkson chose to attend Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Tahlequah, OK. Because of a severe knee injury, she was never able to compete during the season and was forced to end her college career early. Clarkson forwarded her studies and later graduated from NSU with a bachelor’s degree in Health and Human Performance. She is currently working on her master’s in psychology at Northwestern.