Steve Lavin Biography

Steve Lavin is a former college basketball coach who ran programs at UCLA and St. John's. Lavin grew up in San Francisco, California and played on a state championship-winning basketball team in high school. He then went on to play college basketball for San Francisco University and later attended Chapman University. Lavin’s coaching career took off when he was hired as an assistant by Purdue University in 1988. After three years with Purdue, Lavin returned to his home state of California and not long after, was hired onto the coaching staff for the UCLA Bruins. In his first year as an assistant coach for the Bruins, the team finished with a 32- 1 record. He guided the UCLA Bruins to six consecutive seasons of over 20 wins and as a head coach for the team, was part of the staff that recruited and signed the number one rated recruiting class in the country both in 1988 and 2001. Lavin was hired as the head coach for the men’s basketball team at St. John’s University in 2010. He coached the Red Storm for five seasons and made two NCAA Tournament trips.

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