Scott Garson Position: Assistant Coach Experience: Eighth Season Alma Mater: UC Santa Barbara, 1999

Scott Garson is in his eighth season on the UCLA staff and his sixth as an assistant coach for head coach Ben Howland.

Garson handles the development of the perimeter players, working on both the offensive and defensive ends. He worked with the post players in 2006-07. Garson also assists in monitoring the Bruins' academic progress.

He also assists UCLA in its recruiting efforts, which has paid huge dividends the past four years as the Bruins landed three straight Top 15 nationally-ranked recruiting classes. Garson helped land the 2010 Bruins' recruiting class that ranked No. 15 by ESPN.com. The class included Joshua Smith, 6-10, C; Lazeric Jones, 6-0, G; Tyler Lamb, 6-4, G; and Matt Carlino, 6-1, G. In 2009, the Bruins' recruiting class ranked No. 4 by Scout.com. The class included five players that are all 6-foot-7-inches or taller (Tyler Honeycutt, 6-7, F; Brendan Lane, 6-9, F; Mike Moser, 6-8, F; Reeves Nelson, 6-8, F and Anthony Stover, 6-10, C). The 2008 recruiting class was ranked No. 1 in the country by many scouting services and national web sites. The class included the Gatorade National Player of the Year, Jrue Holiday, and four other top 50 players (Drew Gordon, Jerime Anderson, Malcolm Lee and J'mison Morgan).

"Scott is a tireless worker and has great energy and passion for UCLA basketball," head coach Ben Howland said. "He is very knowledgeable and has come up through the ranks so he knows everything from top to bottom, having been a manager, a video coordinator and a full-time assistant. He is very good at instruction as well as player development."

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 also assists with the UCLA boy's basketball summer camps, which he directed his first three years at UCLA.

Prior to coming to UCLA, Garson served five seasons (1999-2004) on the University of Utah staff under Hall of Fame coach and current St. Louis University head coach, Rick Majerus. Garson was an assistant coach during the 2003-04 season, when he coached Andrew Bogut, who went on to become the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. He also assisted in the Utes' recruiting efforts. Garson served as the Utes' video coordinator in 2002-03, and was an administrative assistant and head manager during his first three seasons at Utah while earning his master's degree. He also directed the Rick Majerus Basketball Camps for three summers. During his tenure at Utah, the Utes won four Mountain West Conference championships, participating in four NCAA Tournaments.

Garson, 35, 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. Garson 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 with his father, Lee. 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.