Esteban Cardoza-Oquendo enters his first year on the Dodge City baseball coaching staff joining the program in fall 2022 fresh off wrapping up his collegiate baseball playing career. This will be Estebans first coaching year with the Dodge City A's.
The coaching position at Dodge City will be Cardoza-Oquendo’s first official coaching position but he does have experience as an instructional coach for kids giving lessons on hitting and fielding and working with kids of all ages including high schoolers. He’s helped with instruction at multiple baseball camps including camps at Baylor.
Cardoza-Oquendo spent the last three years playing third base at Baylor. In his first season, the Bears played 16 games before Co-VID cut the season short, in 2021 he would start all 40 games he played in playing third base, while in 2022 he played in and started in 51 of the team's 54 contests. Playing in a total of 107 games for the Baylor Bears he finished with a .251 average with 89 hits, 52 runs, 18 doubles, 53 RBI, and 35 walks. He earned Academic All-Big 12 First team honors in 2021 and 2022.
Before Baylor Cardoza-Oquendo played two seasons at Navarro College where Conquistador Head Coach, Brett Doe was an assistant coach on staff at the time of his playing for the Bulldogs. He was named first-team all-conference at shortstop in 2018 and helped Navarro win Conference titles in 2018 and 2019, and place third in NJCAA Division I World Series. In 2018 he earned NJCAA Region XIV first-team honors at shortstop.
The coaching position at Dodge City will be Cardoza-Oquendo’s first official coaching position but he does have experience as an instructional coach for kids giving lessons on hitting and fielding and working with kids of all ages including high schoolers. He’s helped with instruction at multiple baseball camps including camps at Baylor.
Cardoza-Oquendo spent the last three years playing third base at Baylor. In his first season, the Bears played 16 games before Co-VID cut the season short, in 2021 he would start all 40 games he played in playing third base, while in 2022 he played in and started in 51 of the team's 54 contests. Playing in a total of 107 games for the Baylor Bears he finished with a .251 average with 89 hits, 52 runs, 18 doubles, 53 RBI, and 35 walks. He earned Academic All-Big 12 First team honors in 2021 and 2022.
Before Baylor Cardoza-Oquendo played two seasons at Navarro College where Conquistador Head Coach, Brett Doe was an assistant coach on staff at the time of his playing for the Bulldogs. He was named first-team all-conference at shortstop in 2018 and helped Navarro win Conference titles in 2018 and 2019, and place third in NJCAA Division I World Series. In 2018 he earned NJCAA Region XIV first-team honors at shortstop.
