Bio

Michael Escobedo, a native of Grover Beach, California, started off his college basketball career by redshirting at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas for College Basketball Hall of Fame coach, Rocky Lamar. He later ended up at Mendocino Community College in Northern California where he played from 2013-2015. At Mendocino JC, Escobedo was a two year starter and team captain his sophomore season while playing for Billy Offill in the Bay Valley Conference. From junior college, he walked on to Multnomah University in 2015 where he later earned an athletic scholarship. There he played for Curt Bickley in the NAIA’s Cascade Conference and helped the program earn their stripes in the NAIA during only their second year in the association after moving up from the National Christian College Athletic Association. 

After graduating from Multnomah University in 2017 with a double major in Business Administration and Bible, Coach Escobedo led youth basketball camps and coaching clinics with the 1 Dream Foundation, and NBA legends Horace Grant and Patrick Beverley in Shenzhen, China. Coach Escobedo lived in China for 8 months where he and his wife coached youth and high school basketball in Foshan, Guangdong. 

Returning to the states, Escobedo accepted a job as the lead assistant coach for the Mendocino Community College Men’s Basketball Team where he coached under the tutelage of Billy Offill from 2018-2021. In 2019, he helped lead the Eagles to their first ever State Elite 8 appearance, the highest playoff seed in school history and the highest state ranking in school history. Over the three years at Mendocino, Escobedo helped move a multitude of players on to the NCCAA, NAIA, NCAA DII and NCAA DI levels on athletic and academic scholarships. His most prolific recruit, Alex Rojas, earned a scholarship to play at the NCAA D1 level(Coppin State) and was only the third player in school history to make it to the division one ranks in over 50 years of the basketball program. Gabe Knight, who Escobedo coached in 2017 went on to earn NCCAA All-America honors at the University of St. Katherine. Escobedo also helped assist his wife, Kat, who is the Head Womens Basketball Coach at Mendocino during his tenure there.

The Escobedos own ESCO Sports International Inc., which directs overseas trips for high school and college athletes and also operate Legacy Sports Academy, the largest AAU organization in Lake and Mendocino counties. Coach Escobedo is working on obtaining his masters degree from Eastern New Mexico University in Physical Education with an emphasis on Sports Management and also serves as PUC’s NAIA Compliance Officer of athletics.