Chris Brazelton was named a member of the UC Riverside men’s basketball coaching staff in the summer of 2007. He joined UCR from the University of New Orleans, where he spent the 2006-07 season as a graduate assistant coach under Privateers’ Head Coach Buzz Williams.
Brazelton is a native of Highland, CA and is a graduate of nearby Redlands East Valley High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in speech communication from Fresno State in May of 2006, working as head manager under Head Coach Steve Cleveland.
Brazelton began his collegiate career at UC Santa Cruz, averaging 6.5 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. He then transferred to Fresno State, where he made the team as a walk-on and redshirted in 2003-04. In 2004-05 he was named a Fresno State Scholar-Athlete.
An All-Citrus Belt performer in both basketball and track in high school, Brazelton was also a member of the National Honor Society and the California Scholastic Federation. He was rated as one of the top shooting guards in California by socalhoops.com. He played for the Inland Empire Basketball Program AAU team under the guidance of Coaches Keith Howard and Julius Patterson, and appeared in the 2001 IEBP All-Star game in Riverside County.
Brazelton earned his masters degree in strategic communications in September of 2009 from National University graduating with honors (3.53). He is single and resides in Riverside. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his family, listening to music and reading.
