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Mike Rios
Marauder Athletic Academic Advisor
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Marauder Athletics is understandably proud of its Academic Support Office which has for over 20 years ensured that Marauder student athletes have the necessary tools not only to graduate from Antelope Valley College, but also move on and be successful at the four year college of their choice. Marauder Athletics has more statewide Pepsi/COA Scholar Athlete Honorees than any other school.
This year Marauder Athletics announced the hiring of Mike Rios as the Marauders’ Academic Advisor. The position is a full-time, tenure track position falling under the Physical Education and Athletics Division.
Rios joins Marauder Athletics after spending the last five years as a high school counselor, the last four at Hawthorne High School.
He was also the Cougars’ head boy’s basketball coach, coaching Hawthorne to an undefeated Ocean League championship in 2006 and four playoff appearances in his four seasons. He was named the Ocean League’s Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2006. In his tenure, 100 percent of his players moved on at least academically to four-year schools.
Prior to Hawthorne, Rios was Dean/Counselor and assistant boy’s basketball coach for Daniel Murphy High School. In his two seasons as assistant coach, the Nobles played in the CIF final four both seasons.
For three years he was worked as a counselor for behavior modification with autistic students for Total Education Solutions, a outsourcing organization for various school districts.
He began counseling at Kennedy Elementary School in East LA.
Rios spent his first three years of high school at Saint Monica, where he was manager for a boy’s basketball team that was ranked as high as third in the nation. He spent his final year of high school and graduated from Hamilton High School, where he played football for the Yankees.
He received his Associate of Arts in liberal studies from West Los Angeles College and a Bachelor’s of Arts in child development with and emphasis in non-profit management from Cal State Los Angeles in 1995. He earned his Master of Arts in counseling, Marriage and family therapy option as well as his pupil personnel services credential from Cal State LA in 2003.
Rios and his wife Wendy have a two-year old daughter, Karly, and are expecting their first son in October.