Raul Mendoza is an American basketball coach of high school students; he is known for specializing in work 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. Since 2016, he has been the basketball coach at

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 elementar ...

on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. He previously coached at

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, ...

and Holbrook High School, also in the Nation. For his entire career as a coach, he has worked with

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 a state championship when their team was at top strength.

References

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