Who is John Saintignon

An experienced and successful high school coach in Arizona and Southern California.

He has also been a head coach at Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Ariz. (2001-04);

Bonita Vista High School in Chula Vista, Calif. (1995-01), and Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, Calif. (1992-95).

At Bonita Vista, his team won the CIF San Diego Section Division I championship in 1999, a first for the school, and he was named Coach of the Year.

Saintignon has been a coach or director at many basketball camps, including his own camps, the Superstar Invitational, the Michael Jordan Flight School and the Five-Star Basketball Camps in Pittsburgh, Pa.

He was a speaker at the opening ceremony for the Pan-American Games in May 2003 in the Dominican Republic.