Izzy Santiago, Jr is the Boy’s Director for Mac Basketball AAU in Cleveland, Ohio.  This coming season he will be the Varsity Boys’ Basketball Assistant Coach at Lutheran West High School.  In addition to his coaching experience, Izzy has been a basketball official at both the high school and college levels for more than twenty years including 6 years in NCAA Mens’ Division 1 with the Big Ten, Mid American Conference, Summit League, and Horizon League.  He is currently an NCAA Division 2/3 official For Elite Officiating where he is also the Training and Development Coordinator for Elite Officiating, which covers 100 colleges from Juco, to D3 and d2 in the Midwest Region.

Santiago was an all-state performer in both basketball and baseball at St. Peter Chanel High School in Cleveland where he was Ohio’s 1996 Mr. Basketball in Division 3 leading his team to the state final four. He went on to play collegiate baseball at Western Kentucky where he was named first team all-rookie in 1997.

Santiago has worked 24 years for Dominion Energy Gas as a Contact Technician Specialist.

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