Advit Raghavan is in his second season as an Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Pacific University.
During his first year at Pacific he was part of a coaching staff that led the lady Boxers to a 17-9 record and 11-5 mark in Northwest Conference play finishing second in the Conference. The team made the NWC Tournament for the first time since 2009 and hosted their first home playoff game since 1996. Raghavan has duties of recruiting, gameday operations, video and scouting, travel operations and more for the program.Â
Raghavan spent the last two years as a graduate assistant at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2018-19, the Lumberjacks posted its first win in the Big Sky Conference Tournament in 12 years and nearly doubled its win total from year one to year two. Off the court, NAU had the 12th-highest GPA among NCAA Division I Women's Basketball teams and eight members were named to the Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team.
He was a four-year letterwinner at the University of Puget Sound from 2013-17 for Pacific men's head coach Justin Lunt, where he also was a team captain during his senior year. Known for his defense and energy, Raghaven played in 64 games with seven starts over his four years with the Loggers. He was also a three-year SAAC representative.
Raghavan graduated with his bachelor's degree in business administration from Puget Sound in 2017 and earned his master's degree at Northern Arizona in educational leadership in 2019.