Rey Figueroa

Staff Coach

Rey Figueroa
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Coach Figueroa graduated from Waukegan High School, where he played soccer, baseball and football. After college, Rey went on to play collegiate and professional baseball. Due to injuries, Rey had to cut his playing career short and decided to come back to Illinois. He has since been coaching youth sports for over 20 years. Coach Figueroa coached the Lake County YMCA’s high school basketball team to a league championship in its first year of existence. Figueroa also taught general basketball skills in Waukegan as part of after school programs, youth baseball as well as football. Prior to coming to ALL IN in 2016, Rey spent 6 years coaching for Joy of the Game and the prior 4 years coaching youth basketball in Waukegan for the Jr. Bulldogs, where he won 3 league championships. Since coming to ALL IN, Rey has coached 10-17 year old boys teams, from feeder teams to the most competitive elite teams that travel on a National level. Coach Figueroa has an unmatched championship pedigree as a basketball coach, which includes 4 AAU State Championships, a NY2LA GNBA Championship, a Lebron James Championship & 6 nationally ranked teams. In the spring/summer of 2019, Rey coached ALL IN’s 15U-17U adidas Silver Gauntlet teams. Coach Figueroa stresses hard work, sound fundamentals and teamwork but really enjoys being around his teams having fun on the court.