Aarika Hughes

Aarika Hughes is an American basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at Loyola Marymount University.

Playing career

Hughes played college basketball at USC from 2006 to 2010, and was a three-year captain.

Source

Hughes began her collegiate coaching career at New Mexico State on her former college coach Mark Trakh's staff. While at New Mexico State, she was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "Thirty under 30" list. After five seasons at New Mexico State, she spent one season at New Mexico on the inaugural staff of Mike Bradbury.

Hughes joined the women's basketball staff at USC in 2017, working as an assistant under Trakh again.

Hughes was named the women's basketball head coach at Loyola Marymount on April 17, 2021.