Jessica Elizondo Estrada, from Xalapan, former basketball player and coach, is already part of the Escaramuzas de Jalisco team, an institution that participates in the National Women’s Professional Basketball League (LNBPF); She was invited to be the assistant coach of the Argentine and multi-champion, Carlos Gorosito.
Elizondo Estrada described this as “something incredible”, because he will be close to a coach with more than 35 years in the “burst sport” who is also one of the most outstanding and important coaches that the National Women’s Basketball League of Ecuador has had.
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Among the highlights of Gorosito is that he has experience that he has acquired in at least 15 teams that he led in the Ecuadorian country, so being close to a coach of this nature will come in handy for the xalapeña, who in 2021 did an outstanding job with Guerreros de Xalapa in the professional development league of the Pacific Basketball Circuit (Cibapac).
Jessica has come a long way in basketball with outstanding results as a player and coach.
In 2018, he participated in the All Star at Basketball World Toronto, with the Shock After team. He was also part of the Gamos team from Mexico City in 2019, while in 2017 he was part of the Kanguras semi-professional team, with a first place in the ACB Tournament. They also won the title in the Megalopolis tournament. The coach was a member of the Jarochas team in the Women’s Professional Development League in 2017.
Its curriculum includes national and state Universiades; First Force national tournaments, Regional Olympics and National Olympics with first places.
She was also the head of the FIBA Americas basketball department in Mexico City, an assistant on the men’s and women’s teams at the Universidad Veracruzana, as well as being in charge of statistics for the Halcones de Xalapa professional team.
To strengthen everything he learned, he took a coaching course in Las Vegas, Nevada taught by USA Youth Basketball. He also has a certification from the USA Basketball Course in Colorado Springs and one from the Nike Clinic for Coaches that he took in Las Vegas.
She has basketball camps in several municipalities in order to increase her knowledge and apply it to players who have been in her charge, as she did at Academia Rinos, where she is director. The last thing she got was the title in Cibapac with Guerreros de Xalapa in Region 6.
