Laef Morris - Men's Basketball Coach

Laef Morris

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Men's Basketball Athletic Trainer

Laef Morris is in his fifth year as an assistant athletic trainer at UCLA and his third season with the men's basketball program. He will also be serving as the athletic trainer for the Bruins' women's water polo team in 2010-11, a program that has won five national championships in the last six years.

Morris spent his first two seasons at UCLA working with the Bruins' men's and women's track and cross country teams.

Prior to UCLA, he served as an athletic trainer at Sacramento State for one season (2006-07) while working with the Hornets' football, men's basketball and men's and women's track and field programs.

He spent the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons at Oregon as a graduate assistant while working with the Ducks' softball and football teams.

Morris earned his master's degree in athletic training at Oregon in 2006. He earned his bachelor's degree in sports medicine and athletic training at Missouri State in 2004.

He prepped at Clark County HS in Kahoka, Mo., where he played varsity basketball and competed in the high jump on the Indians' track and field team.

Morris and his wife, Allison (Ross), got married in the summer of 2009 and reside in Brentwood, Calif., with their daughter, Harper, who was born in June of 2011.