_(cropped).jpg) Scates in 2009 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 9, 1939 (age 85) Los Angeles, California , U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | UCLA | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Volleyball coach | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Sue Scates | ||||||||||||||
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Allen Edward Scates (born June 9, 1939) is an American former volleyball player and coach who was head coach of the UCLA Bruins for 48 years. Scates is the winningest volleyball coach in the history of the NCAA, and the 19 NCAA titles the Bruins won during his tenure ties him for the most NCAA titles won by a coach in a single sport with Arkansas' John McDonnell (Indoor Track and Field). Scates' teams won collegiate volleyball championships in five different decades. In addition to coaching, Scates was a physical education instructor at Horace Mann and Hawthorne, two of the elementary schools in the Beverly Hills Unified School District.