Al Scates
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"Al Scates" is an American volleyball player and former volleyball coach of the UCLA Bruins of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Scates is the winningest volleyball coach in the history of the NCAA, and the 19 NCAA titles the Bruins have won during his tenure ties him for the most NCAA titles won by a coach in a single sport with University of Arkansas/Arkansas' John McDonnell (coach)/John McDonnell (Indoor Track and Field). Scates has won some kind of collegiate volleyball championship in five different decades, and his NCAA championships are spread across four different decades. Scates also taught physical education in the Beverly Hills Unified School District (e.g., at Hawthorne Elementary School) for many years.

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I hope it's only a sprain. We're just verifying there are no broken bones. In any case, we won't be looking for him to play for a while.

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He's the guy we're really worried about. I just remember him as a very explosive jumper, quick to leave the floor with a very quick arm.

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We need to win our home matches. We're 0-1 in the league and we need to win it all. We haven't been getting any first-place votes at this point. We have mostly first-year starters at the hitting positions, so it would be a very big upset. But we're capable of doing that.

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They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

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Playing down to their level is usually a problem, but we have to have a mind-set that we're going to play hard before we get there. Last year they had all the emotion and we were lucky to get out of there with a win, and they're going to be excited about playing us again.

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Right now, this is the worst serving team I ever had. But we're going to keep banging jump serves, and by the end of the year, we'll be better.

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We were very critical of some of the things the players were doing during an hour videotape meeting (on Friday). Then we had an hour and a half of video before the game where we looked at the tendencies of all their servers.

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He was running different routes. I don't know where he was going. He was doing a lot of verbal routes. It was between him and Dennis. He was running all over the place.

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I have to hand it to them. They run a very quick offense. They have small, quick outside hitters who can hit a very low set. We had a lot of trouble getting two blockers on them, and we weren't skilled enough to beat them one on one.

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