Sport(s) Basketball Title Head Coach | Team [Fuerza Guinda] Name John Saintignon | |
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4 as a professional Spain and Mexico professional teams. 1980–1983
1983–1985
1985–1986
1986–1988
1988–1989
1989–1997
1997–1998
1998–2002
2002–2008
2008-present Mar Vista High School
Bonita Vista HS
Canyon del Oro HS
Desert Edge HS
Corvallis, Oregon (asst.)
Culiacan, Mexico
Turlock, CA (asst.)
Sacramento, CA
Kingdom of Bahrain, Middle East Education University of California, San Diego Positions Point guard, Shooting guard | ||
Skill development workout with coach john saintignon
John Saintignon (born 1965 in Tucson, Arizona) is the newly named CEO of Interscholastic Licensing Company (ILC). Partnered with Reebok Team, a provider of high quality athletic goods, ILC provides schools, foundations, organizations, federations and individuals a way to self-fund using an online webstore format. He was the former Head Coach of Fuerza Guinda men's basketball. He also was the former Head Coach of Sitra Club in the Kingdom of Bahrain and He was the former men's basketball Director of Basketball coach of the Oregon State Beavers at Oregon State University.
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- Skill development workout with coach john saintignon
- Coaching philosophy coach john saintignon
- Early life
- Coaching career
- Personal life
- References
Coaching philosophy coach john saintignon
Early life
John's college basketball playing career was as a player at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the All-Time Leading Scorer in University history and led the entire United States NCAA college basketball with a Scoring title, leading 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. He continued his education at Liberty University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 2010.
Coaching career
Saintignon’s first coaching position was as a basketball coach at Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, California. At Mar Vista, Saintignon served as the varsity head coach for three seasons from 1992-95. He was able to win a championship, which had not been done since 1964.
Saintignon’s next job was at Bonita Vista High School in Chula Vista, as the head coach from 1995-2001. He became the schools' 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 3 consecutive seasons. After three seasons with CDO, Saintignon moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to head up a new high school, Desert Edge high School. He helped to build the school program before being asked to join Oregon State University.
After two seasons as the Director of Basketball at Oregon State University, Saintignon left to become a Head coach of Culiacan Caballeros. He remained in Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico for one season, helping that first-year franchise play in the 24-team LNBP and finish in position 6 overall.
Saintignon moved on again to become an assistant at Cal State Stanislaus University. He was a member of the Warriors staff from 2008-2009.
In 2009-10, Saintignon again became a head coach at Grant High School of Sacramento. He remained with the Pacers for one season.
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 2 seasons with Sitra Club, Saintignon helped the Sailors to the round of 6 in his first season, finishing one game out of 4, in position 5 overall. The next season led the team to a 6-3 record, which was a 4th-place finish before civil unrest in the Arab country forced an early cancellation of the season.
Current Head Coach of Fuerza Guinda of CIBACOPA League in Nogales, Mexico.
As a guest speaker in Italy, China, Croatia, Bahrain, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, Saintignon has earned a reputation as an authority on player development and has produced several DVD’s on getting athletes better through individual training; “Advanced Guard Workout” is the title, as well as attacking on offense with his Secondary Break philosophy, called “On the Attack: Mastering the Secondary Break,” available at Championship Productions.
He also has been published many times:
Personal life
Saintignon lives with his wife Angelica and their two sons Vicente and Sebastian.