Jase Coburn

Coburn was named Portland State’s new men’s basketball coach on April 16, 2021 by then-Director of Athletics Valerie Cleary.

Prior to coming to Portland State, Coburn gained a wealth of coaching experience. Though only 37 when he was named Head Coach, Coburn had already been coaching for 18 years, including a dozen years at the junior college and Division I levels. He was an assistant at Howard (TX) Junior College. Howard went 53-14 over the two seasons he was there, winning an NJCAA Region 5 Championship and reaching the NJCAA National Tournament final eight. Howard was a top-10 ranked program those two seasons.

Coburn was the Head Coach at McClintock High School in Tempe, AZ from 2007 to 2011. At 23, he was one of the youngest head coaches ever to be hired in Arizona, and by 26 had led the team to a state title. Coburn’s 2009-10 team won the 4A state championship, and two other times his teams reached the quarterfinals. He was the consensus Arizona 4A Coach of the Year in 2009-10. Overall, his teams compiled a 74-39 record.

Coburn was an assistant coach at Phoenix College from 2005 to 2007 when the team twice reached the national tournament. He spent one season as an assistant coach at Corona del Sol (AZ) HS in 2004-05. He has also coached AAU basketball (Arizona Rage, 2003-07; and Compton Magic, 2011).

A native of Mesa, AZ, Coburn played basketball at Mesquite High School and MiraCosta College. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education-History from Arizona State (2006). He is married to the former Lindsay Meiggs, and they have two sons, Kyler (3), and Tayson, born this past April.