Rush played at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he and Dan Gadzuric were both named the team's most valuable freshman in 1999.
[5][6] The Los Angeles Daily News later called Rush "UCLA's poster child for an ill-advised exit.
[6] Rush accepted a job as freshman girls B-team basketball coach at Blue Valley Northwest High School in 2006.
The state titles were eventually stripped after AAU Coach Myron Piggie pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for paying $35,500 to five high school players on his Kansas City-based team from 1996 to 1998.
The players, aside from JaRon and his younger brother Kareem, were Corey Maggette, Korleone Young and Andre Williams.