Rob Brooks enters his third season as a member of the Cerritos College men’s basketball coaching staff. Now in his 11th year as a college basketball coach, Brooks started his career as a student-assistant and head manager at USC, where he spent four seasons (2003-07) under head coach Tim Floyd. While with USC, Brooks held several roles, which included working with the day-to-day operations, meeting with the Associate Athletic Director in charge of academics to help monitor the athlete’s academic progress, as well as game preparation, summer camps, travel and practice preparation. During the 2007 season, Brooks was a part of the Trojan program that won a school-record 25 games (25-12) and reached the Sweet 16.

After his time with USC, Brooks accepted the Associate Head Coaching job at Stoneridge Preparatory School in Simi Valley, a highly-recognized high school program. Brooks ran day-to-day practice, followed up on the student-athletes academics and recruiting. During the 2007-08 season, all 13 of the student-athletes graduated, while 11 of them went on to play college basketball, including USC standout Nikola Vucevuc. Brooks then became one of the youngest Division 1 assistant coaches in the nation (24 years old) when he accepted a position at Jacksonville State (AL) University of the Ohio Valley Conference. His main responsibilities were improving the APR/Academic standing of the basketball program, recruiting, and game prep for a third of the teams on the Gamecocks schedule. After JSU, Brooks was the head assistant coach at nationally-renowned Western Nebraska CC, where he took on all aspects of the program, including recruiting.

Brooks attended Los Alamitos High, where he was a two-year varsity basketball player and captain under current Falcon head coach Russ May. Brooks went on to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from USC and currently resides in Temecula, CA.