John Saintignon

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John Saintignon
Personal information
Born (1965-05-06) May 6, 1965 (age 59)
Tucson, Arizona
Career information
College
PositionPoint guard and shooting guard
Career history
As coach:
1992–1995 Mar Vista High School
1995–2001 Bonita Vista HS
2002–2003 Canyon del Oro HS
2003–2004 Desert Edge HS
2004–2007 Oregon State (asst.)
2007–2008 Caballeros de Culiacan
2008–2009 Stanislaus State (asst.)
2009–2010 Grant Union HS
2010–2011 Sitra Club
2012Fuerza Guinda
2016Culiacan Caballeros
2019-2020 Saitama Broncos
2021-2023 Yamaguchi Patriots
Career highlights and awards
  • The leading scorer in the NCAA in 1985-86, averaging 31.2 ppg

John Saintignon (born 1965 in Tucson, Arizona) is the former CEO of Interscholastic Licensing Company (ILC). [1] Partnered with Reebok Team, [2] a provider of athletic goods, ILC provides schools, foundations, organizations, federations, and individuals a way to self-fund using an online website format.

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Saintignon was formerly the head coach of Saitama in BJ League in Japan. He was also the head coach of Sitra Club in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the men's basketball director and assistant coach of the Oregon State Beavers at Oregon State University.

Early life

Saintignon's college basketball player career was as a player at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the all-time leading scorer in university history. He led the entire United States NCAA college basketball with a scoring title, and he led the nation in scoring in 1985–86, averaging 31.2 points per game. He later transferred and is a 1990 graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a degree in economics. His professional playing career began in Barcelona, Spain where he was a starter. He then moved to Mexico for his final seasons as a professional athlete, playing in Durango, Zacatecas, and Monterrey. After his professional playing career, he returned to Law School where he clerked his first year at Jeffer, Mangles, Butler and Marmaro. He continued his education at Liberty University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 2010, and decided that he would enter the coaching profession.

Coaching career

Saintignon's first coaching position was as a basketball coach at Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, California. He served as the varsity head coach for three seasons from 1992 to 1995. He won a championship, which had not been done since 1964.

His next job was at Bonita Vista High School in Chula Vista, as the head coach from 1995 to 2001. He became the school's first coach to win a CIF title in basketball in 1999, finishing that season 30–5. In 2002 he left to become the head coach with Canyon del Oro High School, getting to the state playoffs in three consecutive seasons. After three seasons with CDO, Saintignon moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to head up the new school, Desert Edge High School. He helped to build the school program before being asked to join the Pac-10 Conference with Oregon State University.

After two seasons as the director of basketball and Assistant Coach at Oregon State University, Saintignon left to become a head coach of the Culiacan Caballeros. He remained in Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico for one season, helping that first-year franchise play in the 24-team LNBP, qualify for the playoffs, and finish in position 6 overall.

Saintignon returned to NCAA Division II to become lead assistant at Cal State Stanislaus University. He was a member of the Warriors staff from 2008 to 2009.

In 2009–10, Saintignon was asked to restore the glory at the famed Grant High School of Sacramento. He remained with the Pacers for one season. The Pacers qualified for the playoffs and have continued on their path of success.

The same season, Saintignon was hired as the head coach of an overseas professional organization at Sitra Club, in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the Middle East. In two seasons with Sitra Club 2009–2011, he helped the Sailors to the round of 6 in his first season, finishing one game out of the Final Four, in position 5 overall by 1 point. The next season he led the team to a 6–3 record, which was a 4th-place finish before civil unrest in the country forced an early cancellation of the season due to the Arab Spring.

Saintignon returned to become head coach of Fuerza Guinda of the CIBACOPA League in Nogales, Mexico. Taking the team to the playoffs in 2012.

A return to become the head coach of Caballeros of Culiacan in the CIBACOPA league in Mexico for a 2nd time. 2016. Taking the team to the playoffs.

For the 2019–2020 season, Saintignon was asked to guide the Broncos of Saitama in the BLeague in Japan guiding them toward a playoff finish until COVID-19 forced a cancellation of the season within the country. In 2021-2022 Saintignon has been asked to build a new franchise in the prefecture, Yamaguchi in Japan, the first time ever that Professional Basketball will be played.

An adjunct professor at UMass Global teaching various Leadership and Diversity and Global Economics subjects since 2019.

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Personal life

Saintignon lives with his wife Angelica and has two sons.

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  2. ↑ "reebokteam.com". reebokteam.com.
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