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Welcome to our Inside the Locker Room Q&A with varsity coaches from around the state of Arizona.
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ArizonaVarsity.com Basketball Coaching Q&A
Scottsdale (Ariz.) Desert Mountain High School boys' basketball coach Todd Fazio is one of the state's most respected coaches. His name comes up often anytime you talk high school hoops with his peers. Coach Fazio does an excellent job outlining his coaching career history so no formal introduction is necessary. For the complete Q&A click here.
Commander King is the newly appointed head boy's basketball coach at Seton Catholic Prep in Chandler, Arizona. You may remember Coach King from his previous tenure up north when he served as varsity head coach at Coconino High School in Flagstaff for seven seasons. For the complete Q&A click here.
David Stark, head men's varsity basketball coach at (Tempe, Ariz.) Marcos de Niza High School is one of the longest tenured coaches in the state's large school divisions. Having been at the helm since 1998, Coach Stark has been on the job in one school for what seems like an eternity in a profession with rapid turnover. For the complete Q&A click here.
Greg Haagsma moved to Arizona and began his coaching and teaching career at Valley Christian High School in 1991. He was the girls varsity coach for six years winning three 2A region titles and led his '92-'93 team to a final four appearance. Greg also coached baseball at VCHS from 1992 to 2003. For the complete Q&A click here.
Coach Michael Wirth became one of the youngest head coaches in the state of Iowa at the age of 23 in 1999. He led Armstrong-Ringsted High School (Armstrong, Iowa) to more wins in his first year than the previous two years combined. Michael also served as a two-time Iowa Basketball Coaches Association Junior Select Team Coach. For the complete Q&A click here.
Liberty High School (Peoria, Ariz.) basketball coach Mark Wood began his coaching career while in college through the YMCA. While coaching, he also officiated games at the Y. Coaching and officiating enabled the young coach to learn every aspect of the game. For the complete Q&A click here.
Coach Paul Long was named the head varsity coach at Tempe (Ariz.) High School this past summer. His coaching career began at Phoenix Trevor Browne High School where he served as an assistant coach for eight seasons under Mike Ellsworth. Paul assumed control of the Trevor Browne program and then went on to coach at Horizon. For the complete Q&A click here.
Dustin Cooper's basketball coaching career began as a varsity assistant at Sioux City East High School in Iowa during the 2004-2005 school year. From 2005-2009 he was the head JV and lead varsity assistant at Skyline High School in Mesa, Arizona. In 2010 Dustin was promoted to associate head varsity coach. This past summer he was named the new head coach at Mesquite. For the complete Q&A click here.
Mark MacGowan's coaching career began in 1990 at his alma mater Paradise Valley (Ariz.) High School as a varsity assistant coach under Bill Farrell. Two years later he became the head junior varsity coach while still assisting on varsity. In 1998, he took over the program from Coach Farrell who had retired. For the complete Q&A click here.
Beginning his twenty-third year in coaching, coach Roger Lefebvre comes back to the Tolleson Union High School District as the head boy's basketball coach at La Joya Community High School - he had spent the prior two seasons at Peoria's Cactus High School, and before that he was the head coach at Tolleson. For the complete Q&A click here.
Coach Dave Glasgow is one of Arizona's most successful coaches. He had a very successful run at Coolidge High School from 1993 until 2004 winning state championships in 1998, 1999 and 2002. In 2004, Coach Glasgow took over the head position at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The Colts appeared in the state semi-finals in 2009 and 2011 and won region championships in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011. For the complete Q&A click here.
Sammy Duane Jr.'s coaching career began as an assistant under his legendary father Sammy Sr. at Corona del Sol in 1990. Sammy was named the first head coach at newly-opened Mesquite High School in 1998. In 2004, he returned to Corona as the third head coach in school history. In 2012 his Aztecs won it all. For the complete Q&A click here.
Coach Ernest Shand is the head basketball coach at Horizon Honors High School in Phoenix (Ahwatukee), Arizona. Prior to Horizon Honors he was the head coach at Salt River High School. This was our first Inside the Hardwood Locker Room Q&A, and we have had many more follow. For the complete Q&A click here.