Our Mission

To become a better basketball player you have to dedicate time to doing things that will make you better. The extra time you spend in the gym can help you make the team, surpass the players who play in front of you, or it can help you become the best player in your city or conference.

It is important to evaluate your skill level and determine what goal you want to accomplish as a basketball player. At the Carlos Cueto Basketball Academy, the player is evaluated from a defensive and offensive perspective and given instructions on how to improve.

Our team

Carlos Cueto

In 2012, Coach Cueto took over the Secaucus Boys program and quickly turned it around. By year two, Secaucus High School were league champions for the first time in 15 years. In those three years, Coach Cueto had a player selected first team and second team All-League.

Coach Cueto is currently the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Union City High School recently completing his 7th season. In 2020 the Lady Eagles reached the Hudson County tournament quarterfinals and the NJSIAA quarterfinals for the first time in school history.

In the Covid shortened 2021 season, the Lady Eagles finished second in the county beating Lincoln and Bayonne for the first time in school history. Coach Cueto also helped produce the 1st 1000 point scorer in Union City High School Girls history.

During the 2022 season, Coach Cueto led his Lady Eagles to the most successful season in program history. The Union City team won its first ever HCIAL league championship as well as the making the schools first appearance in the Hudson County Tournament Championship Final. The Lady Eagles also went on to capture the school's first State Sectional Championship. Coach Cueto was named Hudson County Coach of the Year.

The next season, Coach Cueto and his Lady Eagles were at it again. During the 2023 campaign, they again captured a 2nd HCIAL League title as well as going on to repeat as State Sectional Champions. During this season, Coach Cueto had his first-ever Hudson County Player of the Year.

The 2024 season saw Coach Cueto lead his team to its 3rd HCIAL League Championship in a row as well as making appearances in the Hudson County Tournament Final and State Sectional Final. During the 2024 season, Coach Cueto had 2 more ladies reach the 1000 point club and another Player of the Year recipient.

Coach Cueto currently has 5 young ladies playing college basketball that were members of the Union City High School program.

Coach Cueto has also coached numerous teams throughout the St. Michael's Basketball program in Union City most recently bringing back the girls side of the program.

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Isaura Guzman

Experiences

- October 2012 August 2013: volunteered in Rwanda as a Shooting Touch Grantee, in which we used basketball as a platform to promote health awareness to the Rwandese youth. We built basketball courts and ran several clinics and events for the community.

- August 2013: attended Basketball without Borders as a volunteer coach for the girls camp.

- November 2013 -Feb 2014: worked as a Jr. NBA India head coach, introducing the sport of basketball to the youth in India.

- June 2014 - May 2015: moved to Rwanda as Shooting Touch Country Director.

- July 2015 - June 2016: worked in Beijing, China as a head coach for NBA Yao School, running year long progressive basketball clinics for beginner and intermediate level kids in China

- November 2017 - Present: JV coach / Assistant Varsity girls basketball coach at Union City High School

- November 2017 - Present: St. Michael's girls basketball coach

- September 2020 - Present: Became a Personal Trainer at D1 Bergen County North

- March 2021 - Present: North Jersey Shamrocks AAU coach