D’Angelo Garcia prepares to enter his fourth season as the Aggie's assistant coach. Garcia joined NM State in 2022, helping lead the program to the most wins in program history with 13 total victories - culminating in their first-ever conference championship after defeating Utah Valley, 1-0, in the Western Athletic Conference Championship. Last season, Garcia helped the Aggies to an undefeated record in conference play (6-0-2) and to another program first as they took home their first regular season title in year one as members of Conference USA - leading to an appearance in the CUSA Championship game.
Garcia’s primary duties lay with the Aggies’ goalkeepers, while also handling a majority of team operations including travel. Under his guidance, Makenna Gottschalk was able to secure two conference player of the week awards, a Second Team All-WAC award, WAC All-Tournament Team selection and a WAC Tournament MVP honor, while Valerie Guha was named to the CUSA All-Freshman team and recorded the second-most single-season shutouts in program history (6) en route to the program's first conference championship.
Garcia came to Las Cruces after spending four seasons as the head women’s soccer coach at the University of the Southwest. Garcia was promoted to full-time head coach effective immediately after the conclusion of the 2018 season, and led the Mustangs to a conference championship in 2019. Prior to his interim role, Garcia served as the graduate assistant coach for the men’s soccer program at University of the Southwest for the 2017 season. As his main duties, Garcia helped train the goalkeepers as well as individual training sessions with the forwards.
As interim head coach for the women’s soccer team, Garcia led the Lady Mustang’s to a 9-8 record, securing a top-6 in the conference, Throughout his first season, he developed first-team all-conference and second team all-conference players.
Prior to his arrival at USW, Garcia was a member of the Wayland Baptist men’s soccer program helping the program win it’s very first regular season and conference championship his senior year, placing the program’s first berth into the NAIA men's soccer tournament. Garcia earned an Exercise and Sport Science degree in Kinesiology.
A New Mexico native (Artesia, N.M.), Garcia currently resides in Las Cruces, N.M., with his wife Haley and their two sons, Beckham and Brooks. He obtained his Master’s in Business Administration with an emphasis on Sports Management and Recreation in 2019, and also holds a USSF Coaching License, continuing his education.
