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Scott Garson is in his fourth season on the UCLA staff and his second as an assistant coach for head coach Ben Howland.
Garson will handle the development of the post players, working on both the offensive and defensive ends.
He will also use his ties in the Southern California area to help with the Bruins' recruiting efforts.
His strengths include player development, player relationships, scouting of opponents, self scouting and breaking down of game and practice film. Garson will also assist in monitoring the Bruins' academic progress.
Garson served as the Bruins' video coordinator for two seasons (2004-06). His responsibilities included - creating all video edits for game preparation; opponent scouting and self-scouting; preparing scouting reports; being a source of information for the Bruin coaching staff regarding the opponents' personnel and strategic tendencies and providing video for all recruiting efforts and special events, including the production of highlight films.
He serves as the co-director, along with Administrative Assistant Doug Erickson, of the UCLA boy's basketball summer camps.
Prior to coming to UCLA, he served five seasons (1999-2004) on the University of Utah staff under Hall of Fame coach and current ESPN analyst, Rick Majerus, including two as the Utes' video coordinator. Garson was promoted to assistant coach during the 2003-04 season. He spent the summer and fall of 2003 on the road assisting in Utah's recruiting efforts. Before taking over as the Utes' video coordinator in 2002-03, Garson served as an administrative assistant, assistant video coordinator and head manager with the Utes for three years. Garson also directed the Rick Majerus Basketball Camps for three summers.
Garson, 30, came to Utah from Pepperdine, where he was the administrative assistant and video coordinator for the Waves during the 1998-99 season under former Bruin assistant and current University of Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar. He also served as the director of the Junior Waves Basketball Camp.
In 1995, Garson coached the Los Angeles Maccabi 13-14 year-old basketball team. For two seasons (1996-98), Garson served as the varsity assistant boy's coach and junior varsity head boy's coach at Santa Barbara High School.
Born on April 24, 1976 in Tarzana, Calif., Garson graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a Bachelor's degree in law and society in 1999. He later earned a master of science in exercise and sports science with an emphasis in sport psychology from the University of Utah in 2003.
He spent his freshman season (1994-95) at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where he played basketball (guard) and baseball (left-handed pitcher). Garson was a two-time All-League selection in basketball and baseball and was an All-State performer his senior year (1994) in basketball at Harvard-Westlake High School in North Hollywood, Calif.
His father, Lee (a 1969 UCLA graduate), mother, Corinne and brother, Chad, all reside in the Los Angeles area.
Garson is single and lives in Los Angeles.