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Raul Mendoza (coach)
Raul Mendoza is an American basketball coach of high school students; he is known for specializing in work with Navajo student players. Since 2016, he has been the basketball coach at Chinle High School on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. He previously coached at Window Rock High School and Holbrook High School, also in the Nation. For his entire career as a coach, he has worked with Navajo The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ... student players. His accomplishments include more than 800 victories. He has won two Coach of the Year awards. He is of Mexican and Tohono O’odham ancestry. Representation in other media The 6-part docuseries ''Basketball or Nothing'' (2019) featured Mendoza (as himself) coaching the Chinle Wildcats in the 2017–2018 season. They were pursuing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navajo
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles (70,000 square km) of land in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The Navajo Reservation is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, and most Navajos also speak English. The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,306). More than three-fourths of the enrolled Navajo population resides in these two states. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinle High School
Chinle High School is a public high school (grades 9 to 12) in Chinle, an unincorporated area of Apache County, Arizona, United States. The school is the only high school in the Chinle Unified School District, and all of the district's elementary and middle schools feed into it. Chinle High School serves several unincorporated areas in Apache County, including Chinle, Lukachukai, Many Farms, Rough Rock, Tsaile, and some areas considered to be Nazlini. The areas the school serves are within the Navajo Nation. The school is the largest high school within the Navajo nation. As of 2013 it has 1,250 students and 125 staff and faculty. 99% of the students are Native Americans, mainly Navajo. History A previous facility, with capacity for about 300 students, was constructed prior to 1966. The population of Chinle increased in the 1960s and enrollment was over 1,000 in 1986. In 1986 the federal government gave a grant to Chinle USD to build a new Chinle HS building, with the grant t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Window Rock High School
Window Rock High School is a public high school in Fort Defiance, a census-designated place in unincorporated Apache County, Arizona. WRHS is the only high school in the Window Rock Unified School District. WRUSD, and therefore the high school, serves several unincorporated areas, including Fort Defiance, Oak Springs, St. Michaels, Window Rock, and most of Sawmill. History The school district opened by the mid-1950s, with high school students two years later. The first students graduated in 1958 and 1959, and the school was completed in 1960. A devastating fire burned the school to the ground early in April 1981, causing $5 million in damage. A new school was built later in the decade. Demographics Window Rock High School had an enrollment of 728 students on October 1, 2010.Arizona Interscholastic Association figures 99% of the students are of Navajo ancestry. The school serves students throughout the surrounding area including Fort Defiance, St. Michaels, Sawmill, Hunters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holbrook High School (Arizona)
Holbrook High School is a high school in Holbrook, Arizona, United States. It is the only high school under the jurisdiction of the Holbrook Unified School District. Adjacent to the school is a Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated dormitory, the Tiisyatin Residential Hall, housing a maximum of 128 students. Holbrook USD (which is the high school's attendance boundary) serves the majority of the city of Holbrook and several census-designated places in Navajo County, Arizona: Greasewood, Indian Wells, Sun Valley, Woodruff, and much of Dilkon and Whitecone. Notable alumni * Mike Budenholzer, former professional basketball player overseas; former assistant coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs; former head coach of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks; current head coach of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conferenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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