Oregon State Women's Basketball Camps
Camp Staff

Mark Campbell
Assistant Coach

Mark Campbell begins his second season as assistant coach at Oregon State after being hired on July 21, 2010.

Campbell joins the Oregon State women's basketball staff after spending the past two seasons at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif. He served as assistant coach for the men's basketball program during the 2009-10 season after originally joining the Gaels' staff as director of operations for the previous season.

"I am excited to add Mark to our staff," Rueck said. "He brings outstanding recruiting and coaching experience to our program, and he has aligned himself with some of the best in the game, experiencing high levels of success everywhere he has been as a player and coach. He is extremely talented, a winner, and most importantly, a man of integrity. Mark is someone I would love to have coach my own kids. I am thrilled to welcome him, his wife Ashley and his daughter Maley to the Oregon State family."

Prior to his stint at St. Mary's, Campbell spent two seasons (2005-07) at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Ore., helping the Cougars to the 2007 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) Championship. He spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant coach for the Pepperdine men's basketball program.

In his own athletic career, Campbell played his rookie season at Cal Poly before transferring to Clackamas Community College in 2000-01. In his one junior college season, he was named the South Region MVP. He led the Cougars to a sixth place finish in the NWAACC and school record for most wins in a single season with 28.

Campbell then transferred to the University of Hawai'i for his final two seasons, leading the Warriors to back-to-back postseason appearances with a 2002 NCAA Tournament bid and 2003 National Invitational Tournament (NIT) qualification. Starting all but one game, he is the winningest two-year player in Hawai'i's history and led the team to a school-record 29 wins in one season. Campbell finished his career by being named to the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) All-Defensive Team as a senior, and he was a two-time WAC All-Academic selection.

Campbell earned a degree in liberal studies from Hawai'i in 2004, adding a master's degree in Education from George Fox University in 2006. A native of Mt. Vernon, Wash., he is married to the former Ashley Smith, who played basketball at Vanderbilt University and is from Oregon City. The couple has two daughters, Maley and Makay.

Eric Ely
Assistant Coach

Eric Ely begins his second season as assistant coach for the Oregon State women's basketball program. He was hired July 27, 2010.

Ely brings over 12 years of Division I coaching experience with nine of those years with the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles in two stints (1998-2004 and 2007-10) and three years at Missouri (2004-07). He helped Oral Roberts to four postseason appearances with three of those trips to the NCAA Tournament under head coach Jerry Finkbeiner. And at Missouri, he served as the recruiting coordinator and worked with the post players on the court under head coach Cindy Stein.

In just his first season with the Golden Eagles during the 1998-99 season, he coached the team to the Summit League title to mark the program's first ever NCAA Tournament appearance, making a repeat appearance two seasons later. When Ely rejoined the Oral Roberts staff, the Golden Eagles repeated as Summit League champions, winning 23 games en route to the school's first-ever regular season Summit League title and a trip to the Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament (WNIT).

Before joining the Oral Roberts program, Ely was the head coach at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University in Mt. Vernon, Ohio from 1996-98. He led the Lady Cougars to a 31-36 overall record over two seasons, improving from 12 wins during his inaugural season to 19 in 1997-98. In his final season at MVNU, Ely was honored as the National Christian College Athletic Association East Region Coach of the Year, also receiving votes by the Ohio Coaching Association as being one of the top women's college coaches in the state of Ohio.

Ely started his coaching career at his alma mater, Northwest Nazarene in Nampa, Idaho, serving as assistant coach from 1987-1996. He was instrumental in the recruitment of several NAIA All-Americans and helped guide the Lady Crusaders to a NAIA Division II runner-up finish during the 1994-95 season.

As a player, Ely spent time in NBA training camp with the Detroit Pistons and played in the Los Angeles Lakers' summer pro league. He played professionally for one year in France, where he was tabbed as the Outstanding American Player by the French media during the 1980-81 season, and four years in Brazil, earning a lifetime contract and garnering All-Star status in 1984 and 1985.

Ely earned a Bachelor of Arts from Northwest Nazarene in 1982, adding a Master's from Albertson College of Idaho in 1995. He and his wife, Regina, of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, have two children, C.J. and Rachel.

Megan Dickerson
Assistant Coach

The Oregon State women's basketball program completed its staff with the hiring of Megan Dickerson as assistant coach on March 22, 2011.

"I am excited to announce the addition of Megan Dickerson to our coaching staff. Megan is an outstanding recruiter and a gifted technical coach. She was a highly successful collegiate player and has an incredible ability of relating to the student-athletes that she coaches and mentors," Rueck said. "I look forward to the success we shared coaching together in the past continuing here at Oregon State. Adding Megan, her husband Todd and their children Bailey and Caleb is a great day for OSU Women's Basketball."

Dickerson is no stranger to the current Oregon State offense and defense as she served as assistant coach under Rueck at George Fox from 2006-10, being instrumental in the Bruins' 2009 NCAA Division III National Championship.

"It is a tremendous privilege to be given the opportunity to join the women's basketball coaching staff at OSU," Dickerson said. "I feel blessed to be able to work alongside Coach Rueck again and join in the efforts that he and his talented staff have given to restrengthen this program. Having worked with Coach Rueck previously to OSU, I understand and fully believe in the foundation of his program. My family and I are extremely excited to be moving to Corvallis and joining the Oregon State family."

Prior to her time at George Fox, Dickerson has held a handful of coaching positions at different levels from middle school to the collegiate level after her playing days at Montana State-Billings were over. As a Yellowjacket, she was named a Kodak, Daktronics, GTE and Division II Bulletin NCAA Division II All-American in 1998, adding GTE Academic All-America accolades as well. A three-time Pac West All-Conference selection, Dickerson also participated in WNBA training camp with the LA Sparks in 2000.

She has been inducted into both the Montana State-Billings Hall of Fame in 2004, as well as the Redmond High School Hall of Fame in its inaugural year in 2009.

A native of Redmond, Ore., Dickerson graduated from Montana State-Billings with a Bachelor of Science in Elemenary Education in 1999. She and her husband, Todd, have two children, Bailey and Caleb.

Ashley Shearer
Director of Operations

Ashley Shearer is in her second season as director of operations for the Oregon State women's basketball program after being hired on September 16, 2010.

Shearer comes to Oregon State after serving as the Capital Campaign Assistant in the development office at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Wash.

A versatile athlete for Gonzaga, Shearer competed as a member of the basketball team during her first two years before joining the women's golf team her junior year. She also excelled in the classroom, being named to the President's and Dean's List, while being a member of the Political Science Honor Society.

A native of Gresham, Ore., and graduate of Barlow High School, Shearer earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Gonzaga in 2006, adding a Juris Doctorate in 2009 from the Gonzaga School of Law.

Elise Trask
Assistant Director of Operations

Elise Trask joined the Oregon State women's basketball program in May 2011 as assistant director of operations for her first season.

Trask spent the last year as event coordinator for Seven Brides Brewing in Silverton, Ore., assisting in the coordination of private and public events, while overseeing staffing and marketing.

As a student, Trask led George Fox to four conference championships under current Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck. She was a two-time team captain, leading the Bruins to their 2009 NCAA Division III National Championship.

Trask graduated from George Fox with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a Marketing concentration in 2010. She's from Silverton, Ore., and is married to Brent Trask, a former George Fox baseball catcher.