Dominican hires men’s basketball coach from De La Salle – Marin Independent Journal

Dominican College on Tuesday introduced the hiring of Justin Argenal as the brand new males’s basketball head coach.

“Justin has all of the teaching qualities we’re searching for and we will’t wait to get him on board,” Dominican athletic director Amy Henkelman stated in a press launch. “As a participant, Justin performed on the NCAA Division II degree and has been a coach at a number of ranges and in many various positions. His data and expertise will permit him to be an important mentor and chief of our student-athletes, serving to them attain new heights on and off the court docket. We are able to’t wait to carry his vitality, basketball data and numerous talent set into our program.”

Argenal arrives with the Penguins after 5 profitable seasons at De La Salle Excessive in Harmony. The Spartans received North Coast Part Division I titles in 2017, 2019 and 2020 underneath Argenal and had been Open Division semifinals in 2017 and 2019.

Argenal amassed a 133-33 document at De Le Sale and was named the NorCalPreps Northern California Coach of the Yr and NorCalPreps NCS Division I Coach of the Yr in each 2017 and 2019.

“I’m extraordinarily excited for the chance to be the lads’s basketball coach at Dominican College,” Argenal stated in a launch. “Becoming a member of an athletic division and college that aligns with my imaginative and prescient and values is a dream come true for me and my household. I’ll work tirelessly to supply our student-athletes with an expertise of development: academically, socially, and athletically. I’m trying ahead to the method of constructing a program that could be a supply of satisfaction for Dominican College for years to return.”

Argenal replaces Booker T. Harris, who had run this system since 2011. The Penguins had been 4-22 earlier than Harris took over, however noticed their win totals rise to 11, 16, and 22, respectively, over the subsequent three seasons. The Penguins dipped to 6-16 in 2020 earlier than going 4-5 in one other COVID-shortened marketing campaign in 2021.

A local of the Bay Space, Argenal was some extent guard at De La Salle Excessive Faculty earlier than shifting on to a school profession at UC Riverside and Chico State.

Previous to his time with De La Salle, Argenal spent one season as the pinnacle assistant basketball coach at NCAA Division II Cal State Dominguez Hills. He served as an assistant coach on the NCAA Division I degree for Southeast Missouri State and The Citadel from 2013-2015.

Golf

Davis McDowell, a 2020 Marin Catholic graduate, missed the reduce on the USGA Junior Newbie Championship after carding a 9-over par 81 within the second spherical of stroke play on Tuesday at The Nation Membership in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

McDowell, who was the primary Marin golfer to qualify for the occasion since Branson’s Deven Ramachandran in 2019, completed the 2 rounds of stroke play at 12 over. The reduce line for the highest 64 scorers was 4-over. McDowell, who redshirted as a freshman for the UC San Diego males’s golf group this previous faculty 12 months, fired a 3-over 74 within the first spherical on Monday.