University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Athletics

Diaz enters his second season as the head coach of the UW-Stevens Point women's lacrosse team in 2025. In his first season, the Pointers grabbed their first victory in school history against WIAC foe UW-Stout, 13-6.

Diaz (pronounced DEE-az) brings an array of playing a coaching experience to UWSP for the programs inaugural season. He comes to UWSP from the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis where he was the head men’s lacrosse and was assistant women’s lacrosse coach. He has also served as the head girl’s box lacrosse coach for the Lou Fusz Lacrosse Club, with two of his players currently representing Team USBOXLA.
 
Other collegiate coaching stops for Diaz included a season as head men’s and head women’s lacrosse at Clarke University in Iowa. There, he was the only head coach in the country across all levels to head up both programs without an assistant coach.
 
Prior to that, he spent a season as an assistant coach for the Augustana College (Ill.) men’s lacrosse program. He had head coaching stops at Westminster (Mo.), Robert Morris (Ill.) and Quincy University (Ill.). He started his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at Missouri Baptist University.
 
Diaz has playing experience at the college level at the University of Illinois and Columbia College. He has played for semi pro teams St. Louis Centurions, River City BlueCats and the Missouri Mastadons. Diaz was even named to the Mexican National Lacrosse Team.
 
Diaz holds a bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a master’s degree from DePaul University. He is also pursuing an MBA from Missouri Baptist University.