Burgos Named WNMU Tennis Coach

Courtesy Brian Kortz, WNMU Assistant AD/Sports Information Director

SILVER CITY, N.M. – The Western New Mexico University athletic department is pleased to name Antonio Burgos as the new head tennis coach of the Mustangs as announced by Athletic Director Mark Coleman.

"We are very excited to have Coach Burgos join our staff," Coleman said. "He brings a wealth of experience and will continue to help build our tennis program."

For the past several years, Coach Burgos has been coaching nationally ranked juniors out in California.

“This is a great opportunity to build on an already successful program and take it to the next level,” Burgos said. “I am ready to leave the big city and Silver City is the perfect place for me, I feel very lucky to have this position.”

In addition to coaching juniors, Burgos also has spent time as a USTA High Performance Coach and was also a pro coach on the women’s tour.

“I realized I had a passion for coaching in my early 20’s and I loved to coach more than play,” he said.

Most recently he has become the Executive Director of a non-profit helping diverse communities go to college. So far, he has a 100 percent success rate of getting kids through his non-profit and enrolled in college.

“I started the non-profit working part-time for about 13 years,” he said. “Then for the past six years, I have moved into a full-time roll and enjoying every bit of it.”

Even though this will be his first collegiate head coaching position, Burgos has experience as an Assistant Head Coach at Moorpark College and looks forward to getting started at WNMU.

“My top priority will be having the players leave WNMU as one of their top highlights of their life,” he said.

Burgos played two years of college tennis at Moorpark at the top-flight singles position and was named MVP both years, as well as claiming All-Western State Conference honors.