Steve Gomez, Lubbock Christian University Women's Basketball Coach
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Episode 274
Steve Gomez is the women's basketball coach for the 2018-19 NCAA Division II champion Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaps. Gomez led his club to their second title in four seasons after capturing the championship on Friday March 29 in Columbus, Ohio.
The championship game was a thriller, with Lubbock Christian prevailing in double-overtime 95-85 over Southwestern Oklahoma State. A former WBCA NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year, Gomez also led LCU to a title in 2015-16, going a perfect 35-0.
An LCU graduate, Gomez was a standout perimeter player for Coach John Copeland in the late 1980s, and to this day, he still holds the school record for career free throw percentage at .855. He graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Mathematics and consistently used his degree to teach in the classroom while pursuing coaching on the sidelines. Gomez’s career began at Lubbock Monterey High School where he served as an assistant coach in the men’s basketball program from 1988 to 1995. In 1996, Gomez accepted the men’s basketball head coaching position at Lubbock Cooper High School, where he remained until returning to Lubbock Christian University to take over the reigns of the Lady Chaps in 2003.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Coach Gomez about winning the Division II championship, what that pressure feels like to be on the sidelines in a double-overtime title game, how his players grew this season in their walk with the Lord, how Christ guides him as a coach and living out that faith everyday.
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| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
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| 1:42.9 | Today in the podcast, it's a March Madness type of feel to it, even though we're in |
| 1:47.7 | early April. |
| 1:49.3 | And our guest today is Steve Gomez, a Lubbock Christian University women's basketball coach, |
| 1:54.3 | the lady Chaps. |
| 1:55.5 | And coach Steve just became the coach of the Division II national champions in women's college basketball in 2019, |
| 2:04.5 | had a 32 and 5 record this year and defeated Southwestern Oklahoma State in double overtime in the national championship game. |
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