Michael Trujillo enters his fourth season as assistant coach at Idaho State. Trujillo works primarily with and is responsible for guard play, but he is also in charge of scheduling. Along with Ryan Johnson, he is responsible for recruiting, scouting of opponents, academics and on-court coaching.

Trujillo was previously the women’s head coach at Division-II Texas A&M - Kingsville from 2011-2014.  He inherited a team that won only 3 games the year before, and in his third year led his team to the Lone Star conference tournament for the first time in five years.

Before his three-year stint as the head coach at Kingsville, Trujillo was an assistant coach at Texas State University where he helped coach the Bobcats to the 2007-08 Southland Conference regular season championship.  The Bobcats also won a first round game in the WNIT for the program’s first ever post-season victory.  During the same year, he helped coach the Southland Conference Player of the Year who went on to play professionally overseas and was selected as the 12th female member in the history of the Harlem Globetrotters.
 
Trujillo also coached for the 2006-07 season at conference foe Northern Arizona.  While at NAU, Trujillo helped guide the Lumberjack program to the Big Sky Conference championship and coached the team to a record of 20-12.  During the Big Sky conference tournament that was held in Missoula, Montana, they upset No. 25 Montana on its home floor in the semifinal game.  NAU advanced to the championship game but lost to Idaho State.

Prior to NAU, Trujillo coached for three years at Sam Houston State and for one year at Arizona State under Charli Turner-Thorne, ASU’s all-time winningest coach.

In his fourteen years at the collegiate level, Trujillo has recruited and coached fifteen all-conference selections, one conference player of the year, eighteen all-academic selections and four conference student-athletes of the year.

Prior to his collegiate coaching, Trujillo worked in the capacities of assistant director, athletic director, teacher and head coach of basketball and track/cross country at the Northland Preparatory Academy High School and Flagstaff Junior Academy in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Trujillo is married to Tammy Harden and has two sons, Aaron (6) and Isaac (4).