Joining the Cerritos College men’s basketball staff for his second season is Chris Morrison, who prepped at St. Anthony High before transferring to Western Washington University and then embarked on a professional career overseas. Over the last two seasons (2009-11), Morrison was the head boys’ basketball coach at St. Anthony, while he spent the 2008 season as the girls’ basketball coach at Bishop Amat High. He also served as an assistant girls’ basketball coach at Bishop Amat in 2007 and began his coaching career in 2006 as an assistant coach at Long Beach Poly High.

Morrison played four years for the Sun Coast Clippers in Australia and led them to the National Championship in 1997, while he was the only player to average a triple-double in the league’s history. That season he was also voted the league’s Best Point Guard, while he won the Slam Dunk Contest. Morrison also spent four years playing in Finland for Hi-Tech Basket Finland and Joensee Kataja Basket, where he was named the league’s Player of the Year three times and was selected to the all-star team all four years.

While at St. Anthony, Morrison was named 1st Team All-CIF, as well as 1st Team All-Los Angeles Times and selected to the Press Telegram Dream Team. He earned 1st Team all-conference honors as a senior at Western Washington University.

Morrison earned a Master’s Degree in Education and Education Administration. Morrison and his wife Maria, have a daughter, Mia and son, Christopher, Jr.