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Victor Garza
Head Men's Basketball Coach
Athletics
Office: 142 Sports Center
Phone: 218-281-8189
E-mail: garza024@umn.edu
Men's Basketball Home
Biography:
Victor Garza enters his second campaign as an assistant men's basketball
coach at University of Minnesota, Crookston. Originally from Laredo, Texas,
Garza graduated from J.W. Nixon High School where he earned District MVP,
All Region IV, and Defensive player of the year honors. After being
hampered by an injury at The University of Texas-Pan American, Garza
immediately began his contributions to the game of basketball as a member
of the Texas Association of Sports Officials and the Texas Association of
Basketball Coaches
Coach Garza served as student assistant coach at UTPA where is assisted
with individual player development work outs, film exchange, and analyzing
game film.
From 2006-07 Garza was an assistant coach at Upper Iowa University in
Fayette, IA and was also the Director of Summer Basketball Camps for the
Peacocks. Garza assisted with recruiting, individual player development
work outs, and was in charge of film exchange, travel and student-athlete
academics.
In 2007 Coach Garza caught on as an assistant coach/basketball operations
with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA D-League. Garza was part of
the staff that produced 1 NBA call-up (C.J. Watson, Golden State Warriors)
and coached a total of 7 NBA players on assignment from the Cleveland
Cavaliers and the Houston Rockets including NBA Champion Shannon Brown,
L.A. Lakers, Steve Novak, L.A. Clippers, Aaron Brooks, Houston Rockets,
Cedric Simmons, Chicago Bulls and Desmond Farmer, San Antonio Spurs. The
Vipers managed a No. 1 Power Ranking for the first 1/3 of the season only
to come up a few games short of the play offs. The RGV Vipers are now under
the direction of the Houston Rockets
Garza earned a B.A. in English and is currently pursuing a Masters degree
in Educational Leadership from The University of North Dakota. He is
currently single and resides in Crookston, MN.
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