2012 Post Season Media Guide - Antelope Valley College

MARAUDER MEN’S BASKETBALL 2011-12
Mike Rios
enters his third
year as assisstant
coach
for Marauder
Men’s Basketball.
Rios is also
the Marauders’
Academic
Advisor.
Rios
came to Marauder
Athletics
after spending
the last five
years as a high
school counselor, the last four at Hawthorne
High School.
He was also the Cougars’ head boy’s
basketball coach, coaching Hawthorne to an
undefeated Ocean League championship in
2006 and four playoff appearances in his four
seasons. He was named the Ocean League’s
Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2006. In his tenure,
100 percent of his players moved on at least academically
to four-year schools.
Prior to Hawthorne, Rios was Dean/Counselor
and assistant boy’s basketball coach for
Daniel Murphy High School. In his two seasons
as assistant coach, the Nobles played in the CIF
final four both seasons.
For three years he was worked as a counselor
for behavior modification with autistic students
for Total Education Solutions, a outsourcing
organization for various school districts.
He began counseling at Kennedy Elementary
School in East LA.
Rios spent his first three years of high school
at Saint Monica, where he was manager for a
boy’s basketball team that was ranked as high
as third in the nation. He spent his final year of
high school and graduated from Hamilton High
School, where he played football for the Yankees.
He received his Associate of Arts in liberal
studies from West Los Angeles College and a
Bachelor’s of Arts in child development with
and emphasis in non-profit management from
Cal State Los Angeles in 1995. He earned his
Master of Arts in counseling, Marriage and family
therapy option as well as his pupil personnel
services credential from Cal State LA in 2003.
Rios and his wife Wendy have a daughter,
Karly, and a son Nicholas.
MIKE RIOS
Assistant Coach -- Third Season
Nikhil Laud
begins his first
season as an
assistant coach
for Marauder
Men’s Basketball.
His duties include
recruiting,
scouting and
bench coaching.
Laud spent the
previous three
years as an assistant
coach at Cleveland High School in Los
Angeles. In his first season, the team advanced
to the Div. I State playoff tournament for the
first time in the school’s history. Prior to that
her was an assistant coach at Los Angeles High
School for four years in which the program
won the Northern League twice -the school’s first
league titles in 20 years. During his time there, every
two-year Varsity player graduated and went on
to attend a four-year university.
Laud graduated from Herricks High in New
York where he played four years of varsity
basketball and earned All-County honors twice.
He graduated from Brown University in 1999
with a bachelors in ethnic studies and then from
UCLA in 2005 with a masters in urban education.
He is married and his wife’s name is Monique
Lane.
NIKHIL LAUD
Marauder Coaching Staff
Assistant Coach -- First Season
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