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SoCalHoops Recruiting News

Glen Marx Steps Down As Head Coach At
Mira Costa HS--(Sept. 11, 2002)

According to a story published in today's Daily Breeze, Glenn Marx, who has coached at Manhattan Beach Mira Costa High School for the past 22 years, has announced that he will step down in order to concentrate on "potential professional and collegiate coaching opportunities," the paper said.

In addition to coaching at the high school level at both Mira Costa and St. Bernard HS in Playa del Rey, Marx also coached for a time at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame HS, and was a college assistant at Brown University, USC, and the University of Hawaii. For the past five summers, in addition to working the Double Pump West Coast All-Star Camps and coaching one of the Double Pump All Star teams in Las Vegas at the adidas Las Vegas Big Time Tournament, as well as frequently coaching his high school team in the Pump's other tournaments, Marx has been a workout coach and team coach in the Long Beach Summer Pro League.

And according to the story in the Daily Breeze, it is this latter aspect of his basketball career, coaching pro players and scouting potential pro players, that Marx intends to work on after giving up high school coaching. According to the Breeze, "Marx plans on working with his associates from the Summer Pro League to evaluate talent and conduct individual workouts. Ultimately, Marx will scout college seniors who are not predicted to make the NBA and determine which players could play in international pro leagues. Teams pay a finder’s fee based on a percentage of the players’ contract." The story also notes that Marx coached professionally in the Philippines, Germany and Denmark.

Marx will continue to teach social studies at Mira Costa. He concludes his coaching career at the high school level with a record of 405-220.