Following a one-year hiatus in 2017-18, Dan Salazar begins his fourth season as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Nichols College in 2018-19.
In 2016-17, the Bison won their first-ever Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship as well as the first NCAA Tournament game in program history. A pair of student-athletes took home major conference awards – Marcos Echevarria (Player of the Year) and DeAnte Bruton (Rookie of the Year).
In Salazar’s first season at Nichols, the Bison won a program-record 25 games, captured the CCC Regular Season Championship for the third-straight season, and won their first-ever Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England Region Championship.
Prior to his arrival at Nichols, Salazar spent two years (2013-15) as an assistant coach with the men’s basketball program at nearby Assumption College, where he was responsible for in-game matchups and was the director of The Assumption Summer Shootout. In 2015, he accepted the head boys basketball coaching position at Boston Amateur Basketball Club, which is a professional development club through Nike and USA Basketball.
Salazar has previously served as the head boys basketball coach at both North Cambridge Catholic High School (2005-09) and Xaverian Brothers High School (2009-12). He guided North Cambridge to a state championship in 2007-08 and the state runner-up the following year. At Xavierian Brothers Salazar inherited a program that had gone a combined 8-32 in the two seasons prior to his arrival and went 21-21 in his first two years at the helm.
A physical education teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School since 2001, Salazar has worked at Bill Curley’s Montessori Basketball Camp and served as a coach and evaluator for New England Top 100, Hoop Group. He’s also been the Camp Director at Xaverian Brothers Basketball Camp.
