Former Wisconsin high school basketball standout Julian Swartz lands first full-time college coaching gig
On Thursday, Georgia Tech head men's basketball coach Josh Pastner added a familiar name to his coaching staff in former Waukesha South and University of Wisconsin hoops standout Julian Swartz.
Swartz has been with Pastner since his days at the University of Memphis, hired in 2016 in a non-coaching staff role. He briefly served as interim assistant coach while there (and again at Tech), but this will be his first full-time coaching position in college.
Swartz was part the 2000 Final Four run at Wisconsin and finished his career at Carroll University (then Carroll College) in Waukesha. He served as a graduate assistant at Marquette, and then at Indiana, for Tom Crean before becoming a counselor in the West Allis/West Milwaukee school district. He assisted his brother, Billy, on the boys basketball staff at Waukesha South before taking the position at Memphis.
Swartz scored 2,159 points in his career at South -- by far the most in Waukesha South history -- and was named 1999 Associated Press player of the year.
Swartz had been director of recruiting and compliance for the Yellow Jackets, promoted to that spot in August 2017, after joining the staff as director of operations. He was promoted to interim assistant coach early in the 2017-'18 season at Georgia Tech.
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Swartz was also a standout in the classroom at South. He's been open about conquering obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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