Dave Shoemate Position: Director of Operations Experience: 13th year Graduated: New Mexico '82

Dave Shoemate begins his 13th season at the University of New Mexico, and his first as director of basketball operations. He spent the previous 12 years as an assistant coach under Don Flanagan. As director of operations, Dave will handle some of the same duties he did as an assistant coach, including travel, setting up coaches travel, working with UNM's academics team, and UNM women's basketball community relations initiatives.

Shoemate began his coaching career in Durango, Colo., where he coached ninth grade boy's basketball from 1975-77. He returned to Albuquerque and continued with boy's basketball at Highland High School and the "C" team from 1978-79. At Menaul High School, his alma mater, Shoemate coached the JV team in 1980-81. Staying with the private school theme in Albuquerque, St. Pius X was his next stop, as a varsity assistant from 1985-88. Shoemate took a year off from coaching before breaking into the Albuquerque Public School system as a coach. At Eldorado, he switched from coaching boys to girls with the JV team from 1988-90. From 1990-97, Shoemate was at La Cueva High School with the girl's basketball team as either a head coach or an assistant. He also spent 13 years teaching special education at Albuquerque Public Schools.

A 1982 graduate of the University of New Mexico, Shoemate earned his bachelor of science degree in recreation. He completed graduate school at UNM and received his master's in Special Education from UNM in May of 1991.

Shoemate was born in Colorado Springs, Colo., but has been in Albuquerque for the last 41 years. He and his wife, Yolanda, a teacher at Eldorado, have been married for 27 years and have three children, James, Sara and Michael.

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