Coach Potts took over the helm of the Warner Pacific Men's Basketball program on September 1, 2020 after a season as an assistant coach at Lake Forest College.
Coach Potts completed his sixth season as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach. In his six seasons, he has led teams to the conference tournament quarterfinals twice and once to the conference tournament semi-finals when his team defeated the #2 seed Oregon Tech in the 21-22 season. His best season was in the 22-23 season when his team won 18 games overall and 15 games in conference finishing the season tied for third place after being predicted to finish ninth in the conference.
At the helm of Coach Potts, he has recruited and developed multiple players who have finished on the All-Conference Team including Thomas Miles, who was the second leading scorer in the conference during the 22-23 season and Newcomer of the Year, Issac Etter in the 20-21 season. He has he had two players that were also selected as Honorable Mentions (Matt Solomon and Jurrien Sparks) and has had two one-thousand-point career scorers.
His teams have seen a lot of success in the classroom since taking over the program in 2020. The team’s GPA has grown from 2.4 to 3.2 and seventeen players have made the winter Academic All-Conference Honors selections in his six seasons as the coach.
During his time at Lake Forest College, Potts helped guide the Foresters to the Midwest Conference Semi-Finals. The team finished top 10 in the country for offensive points per game, averaging 81. Most recently, Coach Potts trained and developed Sean Espinosa, the Foresters' leading scorer who, with one more year remaining, has become a 1,000-point-career scorer, Lake Forest's All-Time assist leader and a First-Team All-Conference player. Emphasizing the importance of team success in the classroom, with Potts on the coaching staff, the Foresters finished with a 3.5 GPA; producing five Academic All-Midwest Conference players and four NABC Honors Court members.
Prior to Lake Forest College, Potts had an exceptional career as a high school head coach in southern California. As head coach at Village Christian High School, Potts led the program to a 10-win improvement from the previous season. Most notably, Potts took the Burbank High School Bulldogs to three straight CIF Southern Section Playoff Championships. In his three seasons at the helm of the program, Potts accumulated 62 wins and back-to-back 20-win seasons. In 2016-2017, Coach Potts led the Bulldogs to 25 wins, resulting in the most in school history, the CIF Southern Section Championship, which had not been reached in 91 years, and the State Regional semi-finals for the first time in school history. For his efforts in the record-breaking season, Potts was named 2017 Los Angeles Times All-Area Coach of the Year.
Prior to coaching at the high school level, Potts served as an assistant coach at California Institute of Technology for four seasons (2008-2012). During his time at Caltech, he coached 14 Academic All-Conference players, 12 players who made the NABC Honors Court, 3 All Conference Players, and three out of four 1,000-point career scorers.
Potts has been a successful 17U head coach for Basketball Training Institute, a notable AAU organization for five years, producing numerous players to NCAA Division I, II and III, as well as NAIA.
Potts, a native of Los Angeles, California, played basketball at Bakersfield College, leading the team in points and assists and earning First-Team All-Conference honors. He went on to finish his playing career in the NAIA at Bethany University (CA), where he graduated with a degree in Business Management. He is currently finishing his Masters of Arts in Business Administration.
Outside of the lines, Potts is Vice President at Potts and Associates, where his duties include consultation with employers as well as a representing employers in front of state and federal agencies on issues of Wage and Hours, Unemployment Insurance and Discrimination.
