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That season, his team finished with a 26-3 record and placed second at the USVBA National Championship.
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Al Scates
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Scates also taught physical education in the Beverly Hills Unified School District (eg, 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. 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.
UCLA began the season 12-12, but closed with a 14-game winning streak. The 12 losses were the most ever for an NCAA Championship team, and the second most for the Bruins in a single season under Scates. Scates is 1,239-290 all-time, for a winning percentage of .810.
Three times a Scates team posted an unbeaten season: 1979, 1982, 1984. Scates currently sits on the Board of Directors of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). He was featured in the January 2007 issue of Coaching Volleyball Magazine, the official magazine of the AVCA. While at UCLA, Al Scates was part of the Alpha Psi chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity Al Scates announced that the 2012 season would be his final season as the UCLA Men's Head Volleyball Coach.
USVBA (2): 1965, 1967 NCAA (19): 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2006.
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