Mike Magpayo
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UC Riverside |
Conference | Big West |
Record | 0–0 |
Biographical details | |
Born | Los Angeles, California | November 9, 1979
Alma mater | UC Santa Barbara |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2010–2014 | Columbia (assistant) |
2014–2017 | Campbell (assistant) |
2018–2020 | UC Riverside (assistant) |
2020–present | UC Riverside |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2017–2018 | San Francisco (Dir. of Basketball Ops.) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 0–0 (–) |
Michael Lawrence Magpayo (born November 9, 1979)[1] is an American men's college basketball head coach for the UC Riverside Highlanders.
Early life
Magpayo is a native of Hacienda Heights, California. He attended UC Santa Barbara, graduating with a degree in business economics in 2001. He was a high school basketball coach from 2001 to 2010. Magpayo also served as the CEO of a multi-million dollar real estate company in Southern California.[2]
Coaching career
Magpayo served as an assistant at Columbia from 2010 to 2014. He was an assistant at Campbell from 2014 to 2017. During the 2016-17 season, Campbell reached the Atlantic Sun Conference championship game as well as the CIT quarterfinals in the schools's first postseason appearance since 1992. Magpayo served as the director of operations at San Francisco during the 2017-18 season, helping the team to a 22-7 record.[3]
Magpayo joined the staff of David Patrick at UC Riverside in 2018. He helped the team improve from nine wins in his first season to 17 wins in 2019-20. In June 2020, he was promoted to associate head coach. Magpayo was named head coach on July 1, after Patrick left to become an assistant at Arkansas.[4] Magpayo became the first NCAA Division I head coach of Asian heritage.[5]
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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UC Riverside (Big West Conference) (2020–present) | |||||||||
2020–21 | UC Riverside | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
UC Riverside: | 0–0 (–) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
Total: | 0–0 (–) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Personal life
Magpayo's parents Lito and Ninet were born and raised in the Philippines.[6] His wife, Caroline, attended UC Riverside.[3]
References
- ^ "Michael Lawrence Magpayo was born on November 9, 1979 in Los Angeles County, California". californiabirthindex.org. California Birth Index. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ "Mike Magpayo". UC Riverside Highlanders. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ a b "Men's Basketball names associate coach to top job". UC Riverside. July 1, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ Robin, Brian (July 1, 2020). "David Patrick Leaves UCR men's basketball; Mike Magpayo new acting coach". The Press-Enterprise. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ Giongco, Mike (July 4, 2020). "Filipino coach Mike Magpayo makes US NCAA Division 1 history". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ Ulanday, John Bryan (July 5, 2020). "US NCAA's first Filipino basketball head coach raring to make mark". The Philippine Star. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
External links
- 1979 births
- Living people
- American men's basketball coaches
- Basketball coaches from California
- Campbell Fighting Camels basketball coaches
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- Columbia Lions men's basketball coaches
- People from Hacienda Heights, California
- San Francisco Dons men's basketball coaches
- UC Riverside Highlanders men's basketball coaches
- University of California, Santa Barbara alumni