Coaches

Dan Balaguero

Dan Balaguero will be in his seventh season in Prescott in 2024 after becoming the fourth Head Men's Soccer Coach in Eagle history in 2017.


His first four seasons in Prescott have been fairly successful going 54-23-3 and winning the California Pacific Conference championship match in 2019. After a season off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Balaguero was named the Cal Pac Coach of the Year after a 13-3-1 regular season record in 2021.


In just three seasons Balaguero has helped in garnering 18 All-Cal Pac selections, 24 Daktronics Scholar Athletes and one CoSIDA Academic All-American. Balguero helped ERAU reach the NAIA National Championship Tournament for the first time since 2013 and won a program record 16 matches while scoring the most goals in a season ever (74). He has helped create a winning environment in the classroom as well, the Eagles finished with the fourth highest GPA among men's soccer programs in the NAIA for the 2019-20 school year.


Before arriving at ERAU, Balaguero served as the Head Men's Soccer Coach at the University of St. Thomas in Houston during the 2016 season with an 11-7-1 record. Prior to St. Thomas, he served as the Associate Head Men's Soccer Coach at Brown University for one year. During that time bears improved from 5-6-6 in 2014 to 10-5-2 in 2015.


His longest coaching tenure was at The University of Texas-Brownsville, a position he held from 2007 to 2015, until the program closed and university was incorporated into the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. Under Balaguero, UT-Brownsville went 119-30-11, won five Red River Conference championships, and made four NAIA National Tournaments appearances, including a runner-up finish in 2014. He was the 2014 NAIA Southwest Region Coach of the year and posted the highest winning percentages for NAIA men's soccer in 2010 (17-0-1) and again in 2014 (24-1).


Balaguero, a native of England, was an accomplished player before he began coaching. Collegiately he played at Champlain College and was a two-time NJCAA All-American and the 1996 NJCAA Player of the Year. He then transferred to West Virginia University where he was an All-Big East Team member and a first team Regional All-American. He started his coaching career at Champlain College from 2000-2003 where he was 27-17-4 with each of his teams competing in the NJCAA region XII playoffs. Balaguero then spent three seasons at Virginia Intermont College where his teams went 52-14-2 and won NAIA Region XII Championships in 2003 and 2005.