SCOTT THOMPSON u VIDEO COORDINATOR Third Year at Oklahoma
Hometown: Rienzi, Miss. Alma Mater: Mississippi ’02 Wife: Ashley Son: Griffin Daughter: Brett
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esponsible for every aspect of advanced scouting and game and practice breakdowns, Scott Thompson is in his third season as OU’s video coordinator. He was hired by Lon Kruger in April 2011 after gaining significant coaching and administrative experience at the high school and major college levels. Thompson also serves as OU’s character coach and implemented “The X’s and O’s of Sooner Basketball” orientation program for new players. The program aims to build student-athlete character and provide education about OU’s storied basketball history and tradition. Immediately before arriving at OU, Thompson spent five years as the varsity boys basketball coach at Cambridge Christian School in Tampa, Fla., guiding the Lancers to a 78-48 combined record and to district titles in 2010 and 2011. He was named the Hillsborough County 1A Coach of the Year the same seasons. Thompson also served as Cambridge Christian’s athletics director his final four years at the school, overseeing one of the largest 1A private school athletics departments in the state (33 athletics teams and 45 department staff members). In addition, he served as the coach of all-star teams that toured the Dominican Republic in 2009 and 2010. At the college level, Thompson spent three years (2004-06) as the director of basketball operations at USF under then-head coach Robert McCullum. There he coordinated the day-to-day operations of the program, including opponent scouting, film exchange, team travel, on-campus recruiting and academic monitoring. He was also the director of the successful Robert McCullum Basketball Camps that grew to more than 150 high school teams and 1,500 campers each summer. Thompson also spent four years working in various capacities with the University of Mississippi basketball program. He was on the graduate staff in 2002-03
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and served as a host for prospective student-athletes on recruiting visits, supervised on-court workouts, managed equipment, hosted visiting team’s practices and game-day shoot-arounds, coordinated film exchange, and handled the recruiting mail database and video editing. His work at Ole Miss extended to academics, monitoring student-athletes’ study hall and class attendance while also organizing tutor sessions. Thompson was a student assistant on the Ole Miss basketball staff for the 2001-02 campaign. He started working in the Rebel basketball office as a volunteer in the summer of 1998 and began working basketball camps the following year. He also worked summer basketball camps at Duke University from 1999 to 2002. A 2002 graduate of Mississippi, Thompson earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He was a middle distance runner on Ole Miss’s nationally-ranked track and field team, earning four letters in cross country and three in track and field. He ran the 800- and 1,500-meter runs, and was a member of the 4x400-meter relay team. Thompson earned 13 varsity letters at Biggersville High School in Corinth, Miss., including five in track and field, four in basketball and four in baseball. The point guard directed Biggersville to the Mississippi Class A state title his junior season (1995-96) and was named to the all-state tournament team. He was a four-time state track and field champion, winning state titles in the 1,600-meter run and in the pole vault as a junior and a senior. Thompson was married in July 2004 to the former Ashley Liles. The couple has a daughter, Brett, and a son, Griffin. u Scott and Ashley Thompson, and daughter Brett and son Griffin