UTPB Athletics

Carlos Barocio-Leon will serve on Coach Justin Carrigan’s inaugural staff as Special Teams

Coordinator and running back coach in 2015.

Prior to his hiring at UTPB, Carlos Barocio-Leon was an assistant coach at SMU

from 2008-2014.  He served as Special Teams Coordinator for the Mustangs from

2013-2014.

Barocio-Leon spent the 2012 season as Coordinator of Quality Control

(Offense) and previously served as offensive graduate assistant and video

graduate assistant. Barocio-Leon came to SMU from Texas College, where

he served as the Offensive Coordinator and quarterbacks coach, helping the

Steers claim the CSFL Championship in 2005.

Barocio-Leon played college football for New Mexico State and then played

professionally in Italy for one year with the Bergamo Lions.

After his playing days, Barocio-Leon turned to coaching and became the

Offensive Coordinator at the University of Nuevo León in Monterrey, México.

After two seasons, he returned to Europe and served stints as the Head Coach

of the Badalona Dracs, winning two National Spanish titles and one Spain's Cup,

and the Bergamo Lions, winning two Italian National Championships and two

Eurobowl Titles (XIV & XV).

He also served as Head Coach for the Tyrolean

Raiders in Innsbruck, Austria, and, in eight years of professional head coaching

experience in the European Leagues, compiled an overall record of 74-16. In 2004,

he returned to Mexico as Offensive Coordinator at Monterrey Tech Campus Toluca

Rams for one season.

In 2011 and 2014 he served as a member of the Mexican National Team Coaching Staff

that participated in the 4^th and 5^th Editions of the World Cup of American Football serving as

Special Teams Coordinator/Wr Coach (2011) and Offensive Coordinator (2014).

Barocio-Leon has a B.A. and an M.B.A. from New Mexico State. He also earned a Masters

Degree in Dispute Resolution from SMU.  He is fluent in Spanish and Italian and near-fluent

in French and German.

Barocio-Leon has been married to Maria Del Carmen Moises-Garcia for 16 years.  Both are

originally from Mexico City.

BAROCIO-LEÓN COACHING EXPERIENCE

1995-97 University of Nuevo León, Offensive Coordinator

1997-99 Badalona Dracs, Head Coach

2000-01 Bergamo Lions, Head Coach

2002-03 Tyrolean Raiders, Head Coach

2004-05 Monterrey Tech Campus Toluca, Offensive Coordinator

2004-07 Texas College, Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks