Former Assistant Baseball Coach
Hometown: Dallas, TX
College: Navarro College & Baylor University
Esteban Cardoza-Oquendo spent two seasons on the Dodge City baseball coaching staff joining the program in fall 2022 fresh off wrapping up his collegiate baseball playing career.
In his first season on the coaching staff for the Conquistadors he helped the team to a 30-29 record and 18-14 in KJCCC action finishing fifth in the KJCCC West. Year two on staff the Conqs posted a 38-23 record finishing third in the KJCCC and recorded the most wins and KJCCC wins in a season since 2017. The 2024 season saw the Conqs have eight players earn All-KJCCC honors as the Conqs won a first round playoff series for the first time since 2017.
During the summer of 2023 Cardoza-Oquendo served as the Head Coach of the Dodge City A's a summer collegiate baseball team in Dodge City that is a member of the Rocky Mountain Baseball League.
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.
