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DeMarlo Slocum

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DeMarlo Slocum recently completed his first season on Danny Sprinkle's Washington coaching staff after a second stint at the University of Utah, where he spent a total of 11 seasons on staff for the Utes men’s basketball program.

Slocum has over 20 years of Division I coaching experience, with stops at Utah, UNLV, Colorado State, Idaho, USC, and Utah Tech (formerly Dixie State).

He recently served as a panelist at the annual Rising Coaches Conference in July of 2023 focusing on culture, recruiting and impacting winning as an assistant coach.

Silver Waves Media recognized Slocum in May of 2022 and named him one of the most impactful high major assistant coaches in Division I basketball.

A native of Las Vegas, Slocum served as an assistant coach at UNLV alongside TJ Otzelberger from 2019-21. He helped his hometown team to a second-place finish in the Mountain West Conference his first season – which was the best league finish in 12 years. In that same year, the Runnin’ Rebels also handed fourth-ranked San Diego State its first loss of the season and gave UNLV its best true road victory since 1991.

UNLV had 11 student-athletes post a 3.0 GPA or higher in the spring of 2020.

During his first stint at Utah, Slocum was integral in the Runnin’ Utes making five-straight postseason appearances – including back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths, a Sweet 16 appearance and an NIT runner-up finish. In addition, he was on staff when the Utes had a player selected in the first round of the NBA Draft in three consecutive years (2015-17).

Of those three first-round draft picks, Slocum recruited Delon Wright and Kyle Kuzma to Salt Lake City. Wright became the first player in Pac-12 history to win the Bob Cousy Award, receiving the honor in 2015. He led the Utes in scoring and assists back-to-back years (2013-15), and finished his career at Utah with 1,022 points. Wright was a two-time All-Pac-12 First-Team selection (2014-15) while Kuzma was a first-team honoree in 2017. Wright was the 20th overall selection by Toronto Raptors in 2015 and currently plays with the Miami Heat while Kuzma was drafted 27th overall by the Brooklyn Nets before playing an integral role in the Los Angeles Lakers’ championship run in 2020.

Prior to joining the Utes, Slocum spent four seasons at Colorado State where he worked under Tim Miles. Slocum was part of the revitalization process of the Rams’ basketball program and went from winning seven games total his first year to 19 games his final year in Fort Collins with two-straight postseason appearances.

Before joining CSU’s staff, Slocum was an assistant coach at Idaho during the 2006-07 season after joining Tim Floyd’s staff as the director of operations at Southern California (2005-06).

Slocum’s coaching career began at Georgia Southern where he finished his collegiate career, serving as a graduate assistant for the 2001-02 campaign. From there, he returned to his home state to become the head coach at Desert Pines High School from 2002-04. While leading the Jaguars, Slocum also founded the Las Vegas Prospects AAU program.

A student-athlete himself, Slocum spent two seasons at Dixie State (currently Utah Tech) before finishing out his career at Georgia Southern where he earned a degree in public recreation and kinesiology in 2001. As a junior at Georgia Southern, he was the team's second-leading scorer before finishing fourth in scoring as a senior. Slocum received his master's degree in educational leadership from Grand Canyon University in 2017.