Rick Cabrera
Rick Cabrera (born December 4, 1976)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Northwestern State Demons
Current conference: Southland Conference
Northwestern State record: 9-23 (.281)
Overall record^: 9-23 (.281)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Southland Regular Season Champion: 0
- Southland Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Northwestern State |
| 2021-2023 | Tallahassee CC |
| 2019-2021 | Arkansas State (asst) |
| 2017-2019 | Austin Peay (asst) |
| 2015-2017 | Tennessee Tech (assoc. HC) |
| 2012-2015 | Tennessee Tech (asst) |
| 2008-2012 | Chattanooga (asst) |
| 2004-2008 | Lackawanna CC |
| 2002-2004 | Keystone College (asst) |
| 1999-2001 | Tennessee Tech (grad. asst) |
Rick Cabrera Facts
- Rick Cabrera
- Born December 4, 1976
- Hometown: Spring Valley, New York
- Alma Mater: Tennessee Tech University (BS, 1999 & MA, 2001)
- Cabrera is a NY-native and is of Dominican descent; his father, Hugo, is a member of the Dominican Republic Basketball Hall of Fame
- After one year each at Kemper Military School (MO) and Vincennes University (IN), he transferred to Tennessee Tech and played for coach Frank Harrell
- Spent one year coaching at Volunteer Christian Academy (TN) and then joined the staff of new Tennessee Tech head coach Jeff Lebo as a GA
- Worked as an assistant at Miami Killian HS (FL) for the 2001-02 season, then at Keystone College (PA) for two seasons, 2002-04
- Became the head coach at Lackawanna CC (PA) in 2004, going 100-29 over four seasons at the helm
- Moved back to the Division I ranks in 2008, spending four seasons as an assistant under John Shulman at Chattanooga
- Returned to his alma mater in 2012 and spent the next five years on staff there, two as associate head coach, under Steve Payne
- Next up were two-year stints at Austin Peay (under Matt Figger) and Arkansas State (under Mike Balado)
- Hired in 2021 to be the head coach at Tallahassee CC (FL); went 49-15 in two seasons and coached a number of future D-I players
- In March 2023, Cabrera was named head coach at Northwestern State in the Southland, his first D-I head coaching job
Rick Cabrera Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only
