NA Welcomes New Head Coach of the Boys' Varsity Basketball Team
Newark Academy’s athletic program is thrilled to announce that Deon Mingo is the new head coach of the Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team. “Coach Mingo stood out as having the best combination of demeanor, ambition and relevant basketball experience to lead our program,” said Director of Athletics Ted Gilbreath. Coach Mingo is very excited to join the Newark Academy family and “to teach life lessons to student-athletes on and off the court and to help them strive for excellence throughout their lives.”
Coach Mingo, most recently the head coach at Essex County North 13th Street Tech, is an experienced varsity head coach who has coached in both the Super Essex Conference and Essex County tournament, as well as in the Non-Public B, Newark Academy’s designation for postseason play. In his three year tenure at North 13th Street, Coach Mingo’s teams won the division and he was named North 13th Street’s “Coach of the Year.” He was also an assistant coach at Rutgers University - Newark for one season and, from 2008-2012, Coach Mingo was an assistant coach at the Dwight Englewood School, one of Newark Academy’s prep rivals. As part of a staff that took over a program that had won two games the season before, Coach Mingo helped engineer a turnaround that saw the Bulldogs go 22-5 and 21-1 in his last two seasons and played in the 2012 state championship game. As a collegiate player at Bloomfield College, Coach Mingo helped the Deacons to back-to-back Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference titles and consecutive NCAA Division II Championship berths.
A native of Guyana in South America, Coach Mingo moved with his family to the United States in 1985 and attended East Orange Campus High School and was a three-year letterman and a captain. Coach Mingo currently works in the Glen Ridge school district.
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