Fort Lewis College Athletics

Jason Flores transitioned to the position of Assistant Athletic Director-External Relations on July 30, 2019 after spending seven seasons as the Head Coach of the Fort Lewis College women's basketball team. He is in charge of leading the fundraising effort for the Fort Lewis College Athletic Department by cultivating relationships and partnerships with community members and FLC alumni across the country.

During the 2019-2020 school years, FLC Athletics saw a significant increase in philanthropic giving and corporate sponsorship from 2018-19, thanks in part to 11 new corporate sponsorship deals Flores helped facilitate.

Flores finished his coaching career at FLC with a record of 125-73, including a pair of 20-win seasons and six berths in the RMAC Tournament. He became the first basketball coach in Fort Lewis College history to earn a berth in the NCAA post-season as a first year head coach after initially being hired as the Skyhawks head coach on June 4, 2012.

In his first season, Flores led Fort Lewis to an 18-11 overall record and a third place finish in the conference with a 16-6 mark in his first season.  The Skyhawks received a bid to the 2013 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball South Central Regional Tournament.

In his second year at the helm for the Skyhawks, Flores led FLC to a 16-11 record (.593) and a third place finish in the league with a 13-9 (.591) mark.  All three seniors - Christie Groh, Ashley Kuchar and Erika Richards - earned all-conference accolades, while Kuchar became the second Skyhawk to earn Academic All-America honors.

Flores repeated his record in his third year at the helm, recording a 16-11 overall record and a 13-9 conference record.  The Skyhawks finished the regular season in a tie for fifth place in the league standings.  FLC fell in the first round of the RMAC Tournament, 57-56 at Colorado Christian University.

In the 2015-16, Flores and the Skyhawks finished the season 19-11 overall and 13-9 in league games.  FLC earned the eighth seed in the RMAC Tournament and upset top seed Colorado School of Mines in the quarterfinal round before eventually falling to CSU-Pueblo in the tournament championship game.

In his fifth season at the helm, Flores guided the Skyhawks to their first 20-win season since 2011-12.  FLC finished the 2016-17 campaign with a 21-7 overall record and a 16-6 league mark, tying them for third place in the RMAC standings.  The 21-win season marked the programs 16th straight winning season, capped off by Kayla Herrera earning RMAC Freshman of the Year honors.

Flores was no stranger to the Skyhawk women’s basketball program, having served as the associate head coach on Patty Patton Shearer’s staff from 2000-04.  During those four seasons, the Skyhawks went 60-49 (.550), won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference West Division championship in 2003-04, and advanced to the NCAA Division II playoffs for the first time in school history in 2003-04. Together, Flores and Patton Shearer turned a 3-23 FLC team the year before their arrival into a 17-8 squad in just two years. In their final three seasons at Fort Lewis, the Skyhawks went 58-25 (.699).

Prior to being named the head coach at Fort Lewis in 2012, Flores was the top assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of Nebraska Omaha from the 2003-12. His duties at UNO included recruiting coordination, games scheduling, practice and game planning, opponent scouting, player development, budget management, equipment ordering, academic coordination, NCAA compliance, team travel, community service, and summer camps. He also taught in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.

Flores twice helped rebuild the Maverick program. When he first joined the staff in 2004-05, the Mavs had posted a 5-22 record the previous year with all five wins coming against lower division opponents. Within two years, the then-Division II Mavericks went 20-11 for their first winning season in six years and most wins since 1991-92. The second time he helped rebuilt the program was in 2011-12, when the Mavs went 15-12 in their first season of Division I competition.

During Flores’ time at UNO, he assisted in developing two all-region selections, four North Central Conference Newcomers of the Year, and six all-conference honorees. Flores has also led the way in the Mavs’ academic success, as 18 players earned conference academic honor roll selections in his eight years. The Mavs placed in the Division II Top 25 Team GPA four out of seven years, including a team GPA of 3.425 in 2010-11.

Prior to his college coaching experience, Flores was an assistant coach at the brand-new Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, Ariz. During that stretch, Flores also served as the head freshman coach for three years and the head junior varsity coach for two seasons. Catalina Foothills won five conference championships and appeared in two state finals, winning Arizona’s Class 4A state championship in 1997.

Flores is a 1995 graduate of the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in history.

He and his wife, Allison, were married in Golden, Colo., on Oct. 6, 2012. The couple resides in Durango and have two daughters, Mackenzie and Macie.