Wilson Finds a Home-Court Advantage : Basketball: Former Pepperdine player replaces Bob Hawking on Waves’ coaching staff.

Marty Wilson is proving that you can go home again--and again. The former Simi Valley High and Pepperdine basketball player has been hired as a part-time assistant coach at Pepperdine after working as an assistant last season at Simi Valley.

Wilson, 23, replaces Bob Hawking on Tom Asbury’s staff, joining assistants Steve Aggers and David Campbell. Hawking, who coached Wilson at Simi Valley, joined the UC Davis staff last month.

“Things are working out great for me,” Wilson said Thursday. “I got into coaching at my first home at Simi, and this is my second home. I’m really excited about the job.”

Wilson will work with the team’s guards, supervise off-season weight training and scout the opposition. He has a bachelor’s degree in communications and will teach a physical education class in the fall.

“(He) possessed tremendous drive and leadership qualities as a player, and that is a positive image he can convey to our current team,” Asbury said. “He is a winner, as proven by the fact that Pepperdine advanced to a postseason tournament during each of his four years at Malibu.”

Wilson played from 1984-1989, sitting out one season because of a back injury. He won the starting point guard job as a junior and averaged 5.5 points and 6.5 assists until a knee injury sidelined him 17 games into the season.

He averaged 5.5 points and five assists as a senior and is fifth on the school’s all-time career assist list with 342.

As a senior at Simi Valley in 1984, Wilson was the Marmonte League’s most valuable player, averaging 21 points and 10 rebounds.

Wilson hopes the Pepperdine job is the first step toward his career goal: to be a college head coach.

“That’s a long-range goal and I know I must pay my dues, but I’m loving it now,” he said. “The only thing that could get me back to the high school level is the head coach job at Simi. It’s always nice to go back to your home and work.”