The head coach of the UNBC men's basketball team said "there's a possibility" that Jose Araujo will be back in Northern Timberwolves colours next season.
"We're waiting to see what happens with him and how his summer goes playing with his national team," Todd Jordan said. "He also might get an opportunity to play professionally down in South America too, so it depends what opportunities come up for him. But he really enjoyed his time at UNBC and I think he'd like to come back."
Araujo, a shooting guard who is a mainstay in the El Salvadoran national team program, spent the 2009-10 season with the Timberwolves. He was recruited out of Toronto by then-head coach Mike Raimbault and made a potent UNBC backcourt even more deadly. Araujo was named a first-team all-star in the B.C. Colleges Athletic Association and was later picked as a first-team all-star at the national championship tournament, won by his Timberwolves.
With his brilliant long-range shooting, Araujo had teams at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport level drooling. When Raimbault got the job as head coach of the University of Winnipeg Wesmen, Araujo decided to follow him there. But, a family matter required him to return home to Toronto and he put his playing career on hold.
"I think he's got it all sorted out, it sounds like, from talking to him," Jordan said.
If Araujo does come back to UNBC, his return would help ease the loss of graduated guards Inderbir Gill and Matt Mills.
In other UNBC men's basketball news, guard Robert Rodriguez -- the team's defensive player of the year in 2010-11 -- was at a UBC Thunderbirds camp last weekend and made a positive impression on head coach Kevin Hanson. Rodriguez, from Sacramento, Calif., is now considering his playing options for next season.
