Jan. 20, 2009
Los Angeles, CA - Loyola Marymount University Men's Basketball Head Coach Max Good announced on Tuesday, Jan. 20 that Myke Scholl, who was hired as an assistant in April, has been promoted to Associate Head Coach of the LMU men's basketball program.
"Myke's role in helping young men develop as human beings and as basketball players around the world has been truly inspirational. He brings a level of commitment and passion to LMU that will help lead this program to a great deal of success," said Good, who replaced Bill Bayno as head coach on Jan. 12. "I have a great deal of confidence in my entire staff. Jason Levy, Gabe Carter and Myke are a big part of why I am so very confident that we will accomplish great things here."
Scholl, who holds a law degree from Maryland, has worked with basketball programs in the U.S. Virgin Islands, at the junior college level in northern California, with the South Africa National and Under-20 teams, the Senegal Men's National Team, with a professional team in South Africa and as a scout for the Detroit Pistons.
The list of players Scholl has coached and/or worked with who have played in the NBA is impressive. While with the Pistons, he worked with Rodney Stuckey, Jason Maxiel, Cheick Samb and Arron Afflalo. He has also coached Howard Nathan (Atlanta), Reggie Jordan (Washington), Chris King (Utah), Priest Lauderdale (Denver), Junior Burrough (Boston), Devin Gray (Houston), Sam Cassell (Boston), DeSagana Diop (New Jersey), Roy Tarpley (Dallas) and Shawnta Rogers (New Jersey).
Scholl was hired by Bayno as an assistant in April and the prior eight years he was the Director of Sports and International Programs for Miles and Associates International in Johannesburg, South Africa. He managed the creation and implementation of the largest HIV and AIDS prevention campaigns in the world called "Love Life," funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Kaiser Foundation. The campaign has reached hundreds of thousands and was voted the most creative and innovative prevention program in the world by the United Nations.
He also established the first national high school basketball league in South Africa with 1,800 boys and 1,800 girls teams that included more than 42,000 participants. He also supervised the construction and development of 500 basketball courts throughout Africa, developed a high school basketball league and motivational program called "Success by Choice" and managed the implementation of the program in South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and Kenya.
In addition to his full-time efforts with Miles and Associates International, Scholl was an international scout for the Detroit Pistons since 2007, a basketball analyst for the SuperSport Television Network since 2004 and has been a coach with the NBA Basketball Without Borders Africa Camp since 2003.
His coaching experience has also included his role as the assistant coach and advanced scout for the Senegal Men's National Team (2007), the general manager and coaching advisor for the Soweto Panthers of the Premier Basketball League in South Africa (2006-07), an assistant (2001-04) and then associate head coach (2004- 07) for the South Africa Men's National Team, head coach for the South Africa Under-20 Team (2003-06), and head coach of the ESPN Club Team (2002-07) in South Africa.
He began his coaching career in 1994 as a camp director at Island Hoops in the U.S. Virgin Islands, conducting camps with NBA players throughout the Caribbean. He was with Island Hoops until 1996 and after three years working in law, he returned as an assistant coach for one season at Contra Costa Junior College in 1999-00.
Scholl, a graduate of Jesuit High School in Sacramento, played at Sacramento State for two seasons before finishing his career at Ohio Wesleyan University and earning a double major in Sociology and History in 1991.
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