Our Coaches

Chase Young

Chase Young was born and raised in Seattle, where he was a decorated athlete at Roosevelt HS playing under coach Bill Elleby, Forrest Ward, and Jeff Denny. He went on to start all 4 years at Occidental College under coaches Brian Newhall, Jim Hennacy, and Brad Hall. His senior year he helped drive his Oxy team to an undefeated league record, then advancing all the way to the NCAA D3 Elite 8, both of which had never been done in SCIAC league history. After graduating from Oxy in 2003 with an advanced BA in Economics for Business Management, Chase played overseas in Denmark for two seasons before returning home to Seattle. After returning from Denmark, Chase coached under Bart Brandenberg at Roosevelt HS from 2004-2006 and became the athletic director and lead trainer at Emerald City Basketball Academy from 2005-2014. During his time at ECBA Coach Chase directed 100’s of teams and traveled around the nation as one of the largest and most successful basketball academies in nation. He has multiple AAU National Championship appearances, as well as championships from all the prestigious national tournaments in the west coast including Reno, Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In 2014 Coach Chase became the Hoopaholics training director and started running the Roosevelt Area Select Basketball program which is a feeder program for the Roosevelt area student-athletes. Since creating Seattle Select High Academic Basketball, coach Young and his coaches have found great success in bringing together elite student-athletes in the NW to win at the national level. In addition to coaching and training, Chase takes a group of NW student-athletes to the Yale Exposure Camp each year and also runs the NW High Academic Showcase for high school elite student-athletes with a 3.5 GPA or higher. The camp receives prestigious college coaches and scouts from all over the country such as Caltech, NYU, Occidental, Macalester College, Swarthmore, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Whitman and many others.

Cameron Dollar

HS UA Rise 17u Team Head Coach

20 years+ as head and assistant coach at Seattle U and UW.
Mentored and developed more than 50 professional basketball players including 20 NBA players.
Four-year letterman at UCLA
Pivotal player in UCLA’s 1995 National Championship season.

Granville Emerson

HS Boys Coach

Seattle Prep Varsity Boys Head Coach
7 trips to WIAA State Championships
BA from Long Beach State

Gadisa Margarsa

Youth Boys Team Director

7 years of AAU coaching and player development
2 x Metro All-League
Nathan Hale Team Captain ‘14 ‘15
Played at Shoreline CC

Badhasa Margarsa

HS Boys Team Coach

Current Head Coach Nathan Hale via Roosevelt HS
Head Coach Edmonds CC in 2019-2020
Played at Montana State University-Northern

Brian Fischer

HS Boys Team Coach

Letourneau University, TX Assistant Coach for 6 years
Shorecrest Head Coach for 13 years
3 District Championships
Played at Wheaton College

Tyler Geving

Youth Boys Team Coach

Head Coach at Portland State for 8 years
28 yrs of college coaching via Portland State, Univ. Portland, Seattle U, SPU, CWU
Big Sky Coach of the Year 2012