One day last month Al Scates, the UCLA volleyball coach, was sitting in his den rhapsodizing about a favorite subject: his national championship rings. "I rotate them depending on how I feel," said ...

LOS ANGELES – Al Scates has spent a half-century putting up big numbers. Mind-boggling numbers. Nineteen NCAA men’s volleyball titles (and counting) at UCLA, more than 1,200 victories (and counting).

Coach Al Scates was honored at his final home game last week after serving as UCLA’s men’s volleyball coach for 50 years. He was presented with a jersey signifying his legacy. Daily Bruin File Photo ...

Al Scates was nervous to talk to him ““ check that, eventual 19-time NCAA champion Al Scates was nervous to talk to him. In 1963, when Scates got a job coaching the UCLA men’s volleyball team, he had ...

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Although collegiate volleyball normally does not garner many headlines, there are times when an event causes people to take notice. The retirement of Al Scates in June of 2012 after 50 years of ...

STAR-ADVERTISER / 2011 UCLA coach Al Scates was once offered the head coaching job at Hawaii. "I knew I always wanted to coach. Thought it would be football or basketball, but when the (UCLA) ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Al Scates, whose nearly 50-year men’s volleyball coaching career at UCLA includes a Division I record of more than 1,200 victories, will retire in June 2012. The school ...

He was John Wooden’s neighbor, the guy with the office next door, the guy who would see Wooden at the Encino grocery store or the post office. Maybe the one guy in college athletics who could lend the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- Al Scates, whose nearly 50-year men's volleyball coaching career at UCLA includes a Division I record of more than 1,200 victories, will retire in June 2012. The school announced ...

Al Scates, who has spent half a century coaching men’s volleyball at UCLA, will retire after the 2012 season. Scates, 71, has led the Bruins to 19 NCAA championships and was selected national coach of ...

Replacing a legend is not an easy thing to do. Just ask John Speraw, who was recently tasked with taking over the helm at the most successful men’s volleyball program in the country, replacing UCLA’s ...