Mike Legarza

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Mike Legarza is an American Leadership Coach, public speaker, basketball coach. He is currently the Human-Technology Coach at Google. Legarza is the Founder of Legarza Basketball Camps, which is the largest day basketball camp in the country, over 250,000 players have attended. Legarza also wrote a coaching curriculum for the Positive Coaching Alliance at Stanford University. These coaching techniques have been taught in all 50 states to over eight million youth athletes. A former college basketball coach, at Canada College in Redwood City, Ca. His teams won 249 games while losing only 59. He was named the California Community College State Coach of the Year. In March 2012, Coach Legarza was inducted into the California Community College Coaches Hall of Fame. Legarza and his wife Kim have raised three confidence and well-adjusted children; Vince a professional basketball coach in the NBA, Alex a rising star in the Silicon Valley Tech Industry and Isabella a collegiate volleyball player at Michigan State University.

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[1] Legarza was a small college All American basketball player at Menlo College where he led the nation in free throw percentage shooting over 91%. [2]

Early life, education and athletic career

The son of a coach, John Legarza and schoolteacher, Nadine. Legarza was an All-State and All-American football player and All-State basketball player at Reno High School in Reno, Nevada, graduating in 1978. He then attended Menlo College, a 2-year college in California, where he played basketball for Bud Presley, and was an All-American guard who led the nation in free throw percentage, shooting 91%. [3] He then transferred to the University of Nevada, where he was a part-time starter and earned a BS in Physical Education 1983. Legarza earned a master's degree in Educational Leadership from the University of San Diego in 1986, and spent a year at Stanford University 1990, where he worked with Positive Coaching Alliance developing a youth sports coaching model. [4]

Coaching career

Assistant coach

Legarza entered into the coaching profession as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Nevada 1983. In 1984- 85 he served as an unpaid volunteer assistant for Boyd Grant at Fresno State, where the Bulldogs made it the NCAA Tournament. In 1985 Legarza became the assistant coach for Hank Egan at the University of San Diego, [5] where he was the recruiting coordinator. While at San Diego, the Torrero's won the league and made it to the NCAA Tournament in 1987.

Head coach

After his success at San Diego, Legarza became the Head Coach at Canada College, California Community College [6] in Redwood City California in 1989. Legarza built a program that had only won a combined 3 games in the 3 years prior to his arrival into a state power. Over his 11 years at Canada Legarza’s teams won 259 games while losing only 59, an 81% winning percentage. His teams won multiple league championships, made it to postseason playoffs 10 straight years, was named Conference coach of the year, State Coach of the Year in 2000. While at Canada Legarza developed 11 All American players and 59 of 60 players who played for him graduated and transferred to 4-year colleges. [7] In March 2012 Coach Mike Legarza was inducted into the California Community College Coaches Hall of Fame. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Announcement". February 21, 2012. California Community College Association. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ "The Mirror" (PDF). May 19, 2012. Reno High School. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Legarza named athletic director at Foothill". Los Altos Town Crier. September 14, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2011. Before attending Nevada, Legarza played basketball at Menlo College, then a two-year school. He was named a Community College All-American for the 1979-1980 season, when he led the nation in free-throw shooting (91 percent)
  4. ↑ "Legarza Is New Athletic Director/Physical Education Division Dean". Foothill College. Retrieved October 18, 2011. From 2000-2002, he was instrumental in authoring and implementing best-practices instruction while working as the national director of the Positive Coaching Alliance in partnership with Stanford University. The training and pedagogy Legarza developed continues to be used by coach-training programs in all 50 states.
  5. ↑ "San Diego Sports Et Cetera : Basketball". LA Times. October 13, 1989. Retrieved October 18, 2011. Legarza was an assistant under coach Hank Egan for five years, serving as USD's recruiting coordinator.
  6. ↑ "San Diego Sports Et Cetera : Basketball". LA Times. October 13, 1989. Retrieved October 18, 2011. Mike Legarza, an assistant basketball coach at the University of San Diego, will be named head coach at Canada Community College in Redwood City today.
  7. ↑ "Legarza named athletic director at Foothill". Los Altos Town Crier. September 14, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2011. Legarza served as athletic director, physical education instructor and men’s basketball coach at Cañada College in Redwood City from 1989-2000. He was named California Community College Coach of the Year in 1998. He left the program with a 259-59 record, and 59 of 60 student-athletes graduated.
  8. ↑ "Announcement". February 21, 2012. California Community College Association. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
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