Xavier Castellano

VARSITY HEAD COACH

Coach Xavier Castellano is a proud graduate of Estancia High School where he played in the Estancia Boys' Basketball program for all four years before graduating in 1998. Coach Xavi began his coaching career in 2001 while attending UC Santa Barbara, helping coach the Estancia freshmen boys.

After graduating from UCSB in 2003, Coach Xavi continued to coach the boys freshmen and JV teams and assisted the varsity until he became the head coach of the Estancia girls' varsity team.

Coach Xavi lead the girls to three league titles, six CIF playoff appearances, two CIF quarterfinals and an overall record of 108 wins and 56 losses in six seasons from from 2008-2014.

In 2014 Coach Xavi became the head coach of the boys' program and since then has helped the Eagles to an Orange Coast League Championship (2020), two CIF quarterfinal appearances (2020 and 2022) and five CIF playoff appearances.

Coach Xavi was named Orange Coast League coach of the year in 2020 and in 2022 he was named Orange County All-Star Coach for the South Team. In total Coach Xavi has over 200 wins coaching both the boys' and girls' varsity teams at Estancia.

Coach Xavi is currently a teacher at Corona Del Mar High School where he teaches special education social science. In his spare time, Coach loves to spend time with his family, wife Kathleen and two beautiful children, Max and Lilah.