Bio

Trent Skinner
Head Coach
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Coach Trent Skinner returns to his alma mater to begin his first season as the head coach for the 2018-19 season. Skinner rejoins the Roadrunner family after spending the past nine seasons at Mt. San Jacinto College.

Coach Skinner was the interim head coach for MSJC during the 2014-15 season in which the Eagles won the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference North Division title and finished the year with a 23-8 record and earned the #7 seed in the CCCAA Regional play-offs. At the conclusion of that season Skinner was named the co-coach of the year for the conference. The past three seasons Skinner has been the Associate Head Coach for the Eagles and helped the program to two more conference titles in that time. In Coach Skinner’s first five seasons as an assistant at MSJC the Eagles also captured two additional conference championships and reached the Regional play-offs each season while advancing to the CCCAA State Elite Eight twice.

Prior to his stint at Mt. San Jacinto Skinner spent one season as an assistant coach at Des Moines (IA) North High School where the Polar Bears were ranked in the top 10 in the Class 4-A rankings throughout the season.

Coach Skinner played at College of the Desert during the 1996-97 season in which the Roadrunners reached the CCCAA Regional play-offs. Following his one season as a member of the team, Coach Skinner went on to serve four seasons as an assistant on the COD staff while completing his B.S. degree at Cal State San Bernardino. In Skinner’s four years as an assistant the Roadrunners reached the playoff each season and in 2001 captured the school’s first men’s basketball conference championship since 1980.

In addition to his B.S. from Cal State San Bernardino, Skinner also holds an A.A. degree from College of the Desert and a Masters of Arts in Kinesiology from Fresno Pacific University. Skinner, a native of Des Moines, Iowa and his wife April (Thomas) who also played basketball at COD, have six children; Isaiah, Trinity, Quinton, Saylah, Xavery, and Lyric.

— Bio current as of May 2018