Al Scates
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Born | June 9, 1939 (age 77) | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Encino, Los Angeles, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | UCLA | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | Volleyball coach | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Sue Scates | ||||||||||||
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Al Scates (born June 9, 1939) is an American volleyball player and former volleyball coach of the UCLA Bruins of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Scates is the winningest volleyball coach in the history of the NCAA, and the 19 NCAA titles the Bruins have won during his tenure ties him for the most NCAA titles won by a coach in a single sport with Arkansas' John McDonnell (Indoor Track and Field). Scates has won some kind of collegiate volleyball championship in five different decades, and his NCAA championships are spread across four different decades. Scates also taught physical education in the Beverly Hills Unified School District (e.g., at Hawthorne Elementary School) for many years.
Himself an All-American Volleyball player at UCLA, Scates began his tenure as the Bruins head coach in the 1963 season. That season, his team finished with a 26-3 record and placed second at the USVBA National Championship. Scates' Bruins won a USVBA national title under his tutelage in 1965, and followed it up with another win in 1967. In the 1960s, he was a Triple A volleyball player in two-man, on-the-beach volleyball, teaming with Bob Mendoza, a San Diego Hall of Champions inductee.
In 1970, the first year of the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship, the Bruins swept Long Beach State University to win their first NCAA Championship. They would win the next two years as well, and win six of the first seven NCAA Championships held. From 1981 to 1984, Scates' teams won four consecutive national championships, the longest such streak by any men's volleyball team. UCLA is the only team that has won more than two consecutive championships, holding streaks of at least 3 national championships 3 times.
In his career, Scates has coached such famous players as Sinjin Smith, who won 139 Pro Beach Volleyball tournaments, UCLA Women's Volleyball coach Andy Banachowski (who is second only to Scates in NCAA wins), and Karch Kiraly, twice named the best player in the world by the FIVB.
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