Cameron Dollar
| Cameron Dollar | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Seattle |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 9, 1975 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1993–1997 | UCLA |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1997–1998 1998–1999 1999 1999–2002 2002–2009 2009–Present |
UC Irvine (asst.) Southern California College Georgia (asst.) Saint Louis (asst.) Washington (asst.) Seattle |
Cameron Dollar is a former college basketball player and the current head coach for the Seattle University men's basketball team.[1] Dollar was previously an assistant coach under Lorenzo Romar at the University of Washington. Dollar attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and was a member of the 1995 UCLA Bruins national championship team. In the championship game against Arkansas, he replaced injured starter Tyus Edney as the Bruins won 89–78.
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[edit] UCLA
Dollar was recruited to UCLA while playing at a prep school in Maryland by then-Bruins assistant coach Mark Gottfried. Dollar attended UCLA in the fall of 1993.[2] Leading up to the final game against Arkansas in the 1995 NCAA tournament, the team was uncertain of the status of Tyus Edney, their starting point guard, who had injured his wrist in the semifinals against Oklahoma State.[2] After Edney did not return after leaving less than three minutes into the Arkansas game, Dollar played 36 minutes and contributed eight assists and four steals as UCLA won the championship game, 89–78.[3] Asked if UCLA would have won without Dollar's performance, then-UCLA coach Jim Harrick said, "Absolutely not."[2] Earlier in the tournament against Missouri, Dollar inbounded the ball with 4.8 seconds left in the game to Edney, who drove the length of the court and hit a bank shot as time expired to win 75–74 in the second round.[4]
Dollar started in his last two seasons, and the Bruins won three Pacific-10 Conference championships. During his four-year career, Dollar averaged 5.0 points, 3.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds. "His leadership qualities were off the charts," Harrick said. "He was always an extension of the coach on the floor."[2]
[edit] Coaching
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Dollar was 22 when he was first hired as a head coach at Southern California College, an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) school now known as Vanguard. He served seven years as an assistant to Washington coach Lorenzo Romar, who was an assistant on Harrick's UCLA staff during Dollar's career.[2]
Dollar was hired in the spring of 2009 as head coach at Seattle University, which was transitioning to compete in Division I after dropping out in 1980.[2]
[edit] Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Seattle University (Independent) (2009–present) | |||||||||
| 2009-2010 | Seattle University | 17-14 | |||||||
| 2010-2011 | Seattle University | 11-20 | |||||||
| 2011-2012 | Seattle University | 11-15 | |||||||
| Seattle University: | 39-49 | ||||||||
| Total: | 39-49 | ||||||||
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National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion |
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[edit] Personal
Dollar has three children. His father, Donald, was a longtime high school basketball coach in Georgia who won three state championships and more than 600 games. Dollar hired Donald as an assistant at Seattle. Dollar's mother was slain in Atlanta, Georgia when Cameron was 4 years old.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4073875
- ^ a b c d e f g Crowe, Jerry (December 14, 2009). "Ex-Bruin Cameron Dollar: From 'coach on the floor' to just coach". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5x40uWobL.
- ^ Dufresne, Chris (April 4, 1995). "A Big Return From Dollar". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5x3wjkpY5.
- ^ Kawakami, Time (March 20, 1995). "A Happy Edneying for UCLA". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5x3vGenMZ.
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