Coach Scott Waterman is the Head Coach at Academy of Art University in Downtown San Francisco. Scott spent 17 years as an Assistant Coach at the Division 1,2, and 3 levels before assuming his current position in 2019. This conversation is a reflection of his first year as a Head Coach.

3:00 - Morning runs for sanity and energy 6:45 - Proceeding during quarantine 8:30 - Take aways from coaching journey 10:30 - Becoming the ultimate decision maker 13:50 - Prepared vs over prepared 18:00 - Building relationships and recruiting to bring a new culture 23:00 - Using your players as a resource to evaluate a recruit 24:45 - Creating buy in with new faces 32:35 - Scott's 3 most important qualities of a coach

Quotes: 5:40 - "the biggest thing I learned this year is as a head coach you cant have a bad day, you can't take a minute off" 11:20 - "that was the hardest thing, going from the assistant with all the answers to the guy with the ultimate answer" 28:00 - "they spend so much time with a basketball, doing stuff without a basketball, even for five minutes...is huge"