Coaching career

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.

In 2006, the Bruins and Scates ended a five-year drought with a win over Penn State University at Penn State's Rec Hall for Scates' 19th national championship. 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.

His son, David, is a Physical Education and Health and Guidance teacher at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, CA. He has two daughters, Leslie and Tracy, and four grandchildren.

While at UCLA, Al Scates was part of the Alpha Psi chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity

Retirement

Al Scates announced that the 2012 season would be his final season as the UCLA Men's Head Volleyball Coach.

Championships

UCLA has won the following Volleyball Championships under Scates.

• 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

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
UCLA (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation)
1963	UCLA	26-3		2	USVBA 2nd Place
1964	UCLA	23-4		1	USVBA 2nd Place
1965	UCLA	24-2		1	USVBA Champions
1966	UCLA	25-3		1	USVBA 2nd Place
1967	UCLA	23-3		1	USVBA Champions
1968	UCLA	24-5		2	USVBA 4th Place
1969	UCLA	27-3		2	USVBA 2nd Place
1970	UCLA	24-1		2	NCAA Champions
1971	UCLA	29-1		2	NCAA Champions
1972	UCLA	27-7		2	NCAA Champions
1973	UCLA	21-8		4	Regional Runner-Up
1974	UCLA	30-5		3	NCAA Champions
1975	UCLA	27-8		4	NCAA Champions
1976	UCLA	15-2		1	NCAA Champions
1977	UCLA	19-4		2	Regional Runner-Up
1978	UCLA	21-3		1	NCAA Runner-Up
1979	UCLA	30-0		1	NCAA Champions
1980	UCLA	32-2		1	NCAA Runner-Up
1981	UCLA	32-3		2	NCAA Champions
1982	UCLA	29-0		1	NCAA Champions
1983	UCLA	27-4		1	NCAA Champions
1984	UCLA	38-0		1	NCAA Champions
1985	UCLA	32-8		3	Regional Runner-Up
1986	UCLA	30-9		2	Regional Runner-Up
1987	UCLA	38-3		1	NCAA Champions
1988	UCLA	28-10		4	First Round
1989	UCLA	29-5		T-1	NCAA Champions
1990	UCLA	23-5		2	Regional Runner-Up
1991	UCLA	16-9		1	Regional Runner-Up
1992	UCLA	17-7		2	Regional Runner-Up
1993	UCLA	24-3		1	NCAA Champions
1994	UCLA	27-2		1	NCAA Runner-Up
1995	UCLA	31-1		1	NCAA Champions
1996	UCLA	26-5		1	NCAA Champions
1997	UCLA	24-5		1	NCAA Runner-Up
1998	UCLA	28-4		1	NCAA Champions
1999	UCLA	20-7		3	First Round
2000	UCLA	29-5		1	NCAA Champions
2001	UCLA	24-8		1	NCAA Runner-Up
2002	UCLA	25-7		T-5	First Round
2003	UCLA	15-14		9
2004	UCLA	24-6		3	Regional Semifinals
2005	UCLA	26-6		2	NCAA Runner-Up
2006	UCLA	26-12		7	NCAA Champions
2007	UCLA	19-11		5	First Round
2008	UCLA	17-14		5	First Round
2009	UCLA	14-16		8	First Round
2010	UCLA	16-14		7	First Round
2011	UCLA	16-15		8	First Round
2012	UCLA	22-8		5	First Round
UCLA:		1239-290
Total:		1239-290

Awards and recognition

• In 2003, Scates was enshrined in the UCLA Hall of Fame.
• In 2004, Scates was enshrined in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Hall of Fame.
• Scates has been named Coach of the Year five times: 1984, 1987, 1993, 1996, 1998.

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