Early Life
Lavin was born on September 4, 1964 in San Francisco. He attended Ross Grammar School in Ross, California and then Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, where his basketball team won the state championship. He initially attended San Francisco State University, where he played on the basketball team. He transferred to Chapman University, from which he graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in communications.
Lavin's coaching career began in 1988 when he was hired as an assistant by Purdue head coach Gene Keady. After three years on the Boilermaker staff, Lavin returned to California when UCLA head coach Jim Harrick hired him as a Bruins assistant in 1991. Lavin was an assistant coach on the Bruins' 1995 national championship team that finished with a 32–1 record. Until the national championship season, Lavin was UCLA's "restricted earnings" coach.
Read more about this topic: Steve Lavin
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“Early education can only promise to help make the third and fourth and fifth years of life good ones. It cannot insure without fail that any tomorrow will be successful. Nothing “fixes” a child for life, no matter what happens next. But exciting, pleasing early experiences are seldom sloughed off. They go with the child, on into first grade, on into the child’s long life ahead.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)