Daryl Vincent - Head Coach - 1st Season
Daryl Vincent comes to OLLU from Texas A&M International Universit y (TAMIU), where he served as women's head basketball coach - a position he held for three years. He led the team to a 32-45 (22-20 Heartland Conference), and this past school year, the team played its first season as an active NCAA Division II member. Under Vincent's leadership, six players earned All-Heartland Conference honors and six earned Academic All-Conference honors. Vincent was named the 2009 Heartland Conference Coach of the Year.
Vincent coached for 11 years as an assistant, before arriving in Laredo in 2006. He was the assistant coach at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in Kingsville for five years. While there, he served as assistant for the women's team for two seasons and assistant for the men's program for three years. The women's team improved their records while Vincent coached, and the men advanced to the NCAA South-Central Region for the first time in eight years during his second season as coach.
Four players Vincent recruited during his tenure at TAMU-Kingsville have gone on to play professional basketball.His recruits also included three All-Americans, two Lone Star Conference (LSC) Players of the Year, LSC Newcomer of the Year, LSC Freshman of the Year and many other all-conference honorees.
Before arriving in Kingsville, Vincent was the assistant coach for the Mount San Antonio College men's program in Walnut, Calif., for two seasons. Both years, his team made the playoffs and five players earned all-conference honors. Vincent also coached the boy's team at Ambassador Christian High School in California for two seasons.
Vincent played at Eastern Arizona Junior College before transferring to Cal Poly Pomona. He earned a bachelor's degree in management and human resources from Pomona and master's degrees in physical education and recreation and business education from Emporia State University. He and wife, Firely Cepeda, have three children.