Dominguez takes step toward dream job coaching team
Former Jaguar nets job as assistant head coach after six years with Colorado Mesa
Mike Dominguez is coming home, and he hopes he is one step closer to his dreams.
New Mexico Highlands University head men’s basketball coach Craig Snow announced he hired the 2005 Capital graduate Thursday as his assistant head coach. Dominguez spent the past six years as an assistant coach at Colorado Mesa, including the last four as assistant head coach, and also played for the Mavericks for the 2009-10 season, earning All-American honors that year. Dominguez replaces Sean Pryor, who took a position in the athletic department at Eastern Michigan.
Dominguez said he made the move to help further his dream to become a head coach at the collegiate level. He mentioned that the opportunity would be hard at Colorado Mesa because the program seems to find the right head coach — the school has hired just three coaches in the past 40 years.
“I think [the job at NMHU] is a great opportunity as well as being able to get closer to home,” said Dominguez, who lived in Alcalde and went to school at Española Valley from 2001-03.
Snow believes Dominguez’s experience in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, of which Colorado Mesa and NMHU are a part of, and the level of success the Mavericks have had over the years were important factors in his hiring. Dominguez heads to a program that finished the 2016-17 season 10-17, but lost nine of their last 13 games to fall out of contention for a spot in the conference tourna-