Bio

Andrea Aguilar-Montalban is in her seventh year as head coach of the women's basketball program at San Diego City College. Her 2017-18 Knights became the first in the program's history to go undefeated (8-0) in the PCAC South as they claimed their second consecutive conference championship. The 2016-17 team won the final four PCAC South games to finish 6-2 and earn its first-ever conference title. 

As a result of Aguilar-Montalban's teams winning back-to-back titles and qualifying for the playoffs in those same years, she was named PCAC South Coach of the Year in both 2017 and 2018. The conference also selected Samera Henry (2017) and E'maniee Powell (2018) as the Most Valuable Players of their respective seasons with an additional eight players named to the All-PCAC South first team and four to the second team.

Aguilar-Montalban took over a program that went 1-23 in the season before she arrived and a total of 14 games in the previous three, but she quickly turned it around by going 12-15 overall in her first year (2012-13) and 7-5 in the PCAC. It was the first time the San Diego City College women's basketball team had achieved a winning record in the conference. 

The Knights won a total of 38 games in her first three seasons at City and they had a winning conference record in each of those seasons

In 2014-15, Andrea led the Knights to their best conference record (9-5) in the program's history at the time, taking third in the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference.
It was the most PCAC wins the Knights have ever had in a PCAC season and it was also the first time that they've finished with a conference record at or above .600. Andrea coached the team to a 13-13 overall record in both 2013-14 and 2014-15, which is the best the Knights had done in their history until going 14-13 overall in 2016-17.

 Andrea earned a B.A. in General Studies with a concentration in Mathematics at National University. She completed her Master's in Coaching and Athletic Administration at Concordia University.

Coach Aguilar-Montalban, a San Diego native, competed in a variety of varsity sports at Eastlake High School in Chula Vista. As a basketball player she developed a love for the game, not only by leading her team as a two-year captain to three consecutive league championships, but by simultaneously coaching junior high and elementary school girls teams.

At Eastlake High, she received numerous League honors and was a two-time Union-Tribune All-Academic League selection. After high school, Andrea played collegiate basketball at Southwestern College where she received First team All- Conference for PCAC, California JC Scores Player of the Week and Pacific Coast Conference Athlete of the Week in addition to team honors. After red-shirting a year at Cal State Dominguez Hills, she returned to Chula Vista to teach in the SUHSD.

She began coaching girls basketball at her alma mater, Eastlake High, as the Head Jr. Varsity Coach and an assistant to the Varsity team. From 2009-11, she was the Head Women's Varsity Basketball Coach at Olympian High School. All three years, her teams made it to the CIF post season, culminating in 2011 with a trip to the quarterfinals.

Andrea's goal has been to teach and coach at the Community College level. She is committed to building and maintaining a successful women's basketball program at SDCC and she is looking for committed, hardworking student-athletes who have the desire to excel in the classroom and on the basketball court.

 If you're interested in being part of the SDCC women's basketball program, please e-mail Coach Aguilar-Montalban at aaguilar@sdccd.edu. GO KNIGHTS!