As a pitcher, Mike Battista showed control is as important as power. He worked the strike zone at Kean University and as a senior in 2005 he won All-New Jersey Athletic Conference first-team honors and ABCA ... Full Bio
Duke Baxter is an instructor at the Zoned Sports Academy in Bridgewater, N.J. Before playing three years of professional baseball, Baxter set three hitting records at the University of North Florida, including a single-season mark of 31 doubles in 1997, ... Full Bio
Scott Bradley, who spent nine seasons as a catcher in the major leagues with the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, surpassed 250 career wins during the 2009 season at Princeton University's head baseball ... Full Bio
Emiliano Escandon was drafted out of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) by the Kansas City Royals in 1995 and played in their organization for six seasons. He then joined the Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League, whom he played ... Full Bio
In 2009, Nick Giaquinto entered his 21st season as head coach of the Sacred Heart University baseball program, including every one since the Pioneers entered the Division I level in 2000.
During Giaquinto's tenure, Sacred Heart went to the NCAA ... Full Bio
Billy Hall was elusive on the base paths, but gets right to the point as one of the instructors at Zoned Sports Academy in Bridgewater, N.J. He set a professional record of 66 consecutive stolen bases, and holds Atlantic League career records for ... Full Bio
John Marshall is the former varsity baseball coach at Kinnelon High School in Kinnelon, N.J. He also has coached Babe Ruth League and American Legion teams. Marshall played collegiately at Harvard University and then for the semi-pro Paramus Pitbulls of ... Full Bio
Ahmad Clayton has been the Director of Basketball Operations for “Hoopmasters” since 2000. He is also Director of the Athletes Intervention Program for Assemblies in Motions, a program for at-risk youth.
Clayton has coached for the ... Full Bio
Jim Datka, a coaching veteran of over 20 years, is the head boys' basketball coach of Messmer High School in Milwaukee. He arrived at Messmer after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at St. Francis College (N.Y.) from 2005-08. Datka has been ... Full Bio
Paul Eckstein, who played football at Brown University, has a background in football and basketball instruction. He coached football in both the Brooklyn (N.Y.) USA Peewee League and the Western Massachusetts Under-12 League. Full Bio
Bill Sacco's life is ruled by the rules. He is a veteran basketball official in the New York area and has officiated NCAA Division I women's basketball since 1998.
He has been the rules interpreter for the International Association of ... Full Bio
Bob Schurtz is head coach of the boys' varsity basketball team at West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in West Windsor, N.J. In 2009, he led his team to the Central Jersey Group IV championship and a spot in the state ... Full Bio
Alan Stein is the owner of Stronger Team and one of the world’s top basketball specific strength & conditioning coaches. Alan brings a wealth of valuable experience to his training arsenal after years of extensive work with ... Full Bio
Over the last 24 seasons, Bill Thom has been a basketball coach at Croton-Harmon High School in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. He has won over 300 games as head coach of the boys' varsity squad.
Thom is a ... Full Bio
Sasha Vujacic has played professional basketball since he was 16 and has played guard for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers since the 2004-05 season.
A coach's son, the 6'7" native of Slovenia has earned the ... Full Bio
Wes Armstrong has been a lacrosse official on the college, high school and recreational levels for more than 20 years. He also officiates softball, basketball, hockey and soccer. Full Bio
Tano Arrogancia has been an assistant coach working with the goalies with Major League Lacrosse's Baltimore (now Washington) Bayhawks since 2002. He also serves as the goalie coach for The Boys' Latin School of Maryland, and was the head lacrosse coach ... Full Bio
Allen Fitzpatrick is the longtime head boys' lacrosse coach at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., where in 2008 his team won its seventh consecutive state Prep ‘A’ championship.
Fitzpatrick holds the single season assist record ... Full Bio
In 2009, Keith Gonsouland has spent eight seasons as the head boys' lacrosse coach at River Hill High School just outside Baltimore. In 2009, he was a Power Presenter at the US Lacrosse Convention.
Gonsouland spent two ... Full Bio
Rick Matthews is the head boys' lacrosse coach at the Friends School of Baltimore. He is president of Workhorse Athletics, serves on the youth counsel for U.S. Lacrosse and is active with both Laxelite and University Lacrosse clubs.
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Played attack at the University of Notre Dame from 1984-1987. Named to the All-Midwest Team in 1986 and 1987. Served as Assistant Mens Lacrosse Coach at Connecticut College for two seasons in 1989 and 1990 while in graduate school. Head ... Full Bio
Matt Ward, a three-time All-American at the University of Virginia, was Major League Lacrosse's Rookie of the Year with the Baltimore (now Washington) Bayhawks in 2006.
At Virginia, Ward led the Cavaliers to the 2003 and 2006 NCAA men's lacrosse ... Full Bio
Shayne White is a lacrosse official in New Jersey. He is accustomed to instructing youth lacrosse players on the rules of the sport.
White also has officiated high school and college basketball. Full Bio
Chazz Woodson has been a professional lacrosse player since 2005 and most recently played for the Los Angles Riptide of Major League Lacrosse. Chazz was selected to play in the 2008 MLL All-Star game.
As a lacrosse player at Brown University, he ... Full Bio
Risto Worthington is an assistant boys' lacrosse coach at Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, Md. He played professionally for the Pittsburgh Crossfire in the National Lacrosse League and has played for and coached the Finnish National Team. Full Bio
Mark Donnelly and Melissa Gelardi-Pfaffe are owners of L.I. Cheer, the largest cheerleading training center of its type on Long Island. They have extensive experience coaching at the high school and all-star levels. Both are AACCA-certified and have led ... Full Bio
Melissa Gelardi-Pfaffe and Mark Donnelly are owners of L.I. Cheer, the largest cheerleading training center of its type on Long Island. They have extensive experience coaching at the high school and all-star levels. Both are AACCA-certified and have ... Full Bio
Bernadette Gannon has over 15 years of coaching experience and is the long-time varsity field hockey coach at Suffern High School in Suffern, N.Y. Among her awards, she was voted New York’s Section 1 Coach of the Year in 1996 and 2007, and Rockland ... Full Bio
Aaron Brady is the head football coach for Gonzaga College High School in Washington D.C. Coach Brady has more than 23 years of football experience. After becoming a First-Team All-State football player in high school, Mr. Brady went on to play ... Full Bio
In 2010, Nunzio Campanile was named head coach of the traditionally strong Bergen Catholic High School football program in Oradell, N.J. Previously, he spent 10 seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at Don Bosco ... Full Bio
In 2009, Duncan DellaVolpe was named head coach of the Fairfield (Conn.) Warde High School football program. Previously, he was offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at New Canaan (Conn.) High School, where the Rams won 93 games in 10 ... Full Bio
Marc Dumlao is the Offensive Line Coach at the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California. Coach Dumlao has 11 seasons of community college coaching experience on his resume. Coach Dumlao has coached players who went on to play at Louisville, ... Full Bio
Don Fellows is the Head Varsity Football Coach at Grand Rapids Christian High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coach Fellows is a former NAIA All-American and junior college assistant coach, most recently serving as the offensive coordinator and ... Full Bio
Dennis Hill is a long-time varsity football coach, including in Vermont at Burlington's Rich High School, Montpelier High School and Barre's Spaulding High School.
Highlights of his career include being a part of the coaching staff for the first-ever ... Full Bio
Jason Levitt is the head coach at Bayside High School in Bayside, N.Y. He also serves as special teams coordinator, offensive backs coach and safety coach. Prior to Bayside H.S., Levitt coached at the University of Puget ... Full Bio
Lou Marinelli is the long-time head football coach at New Canaan High School in New Canaan, Conn. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Education from Springfield College, where he began his coaching career. After spending several years coaching ... Full Bio
Leonard Stephens is an assistant coach at Gonzaga College High School in Washington D.C. Coach Stephens hails from West Windsor, New Jersey, where he was a multi-sport athlete at West Windso Plainsboro High School. Coach Stepehens played college football ... Full Bio
William Tierney is the defensive backs coach at Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, N.J., which won New Jersey’s Non-Public Group IV championship in 2006, ’07 and ’08 and finished each season top-ranked in the East by USA ... Full Bio
Greg Toal has guided three New Jersey high school programs to multiple state titles and currently is head coach of the highly successful Don Bosco Preparatory program in Ramsey. He was head coach for the 2007 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, and was ... Full Bio
Eric Wysocki, aka "Coach W" or "Dub", is an assistant coach at Bayside High School in Bayside, N.Y. He serves as the defensive coordinator and academic coach, and also has coached the offensive line, linebackers ... Full Bio
Gaddy Fortune played four years as a midfielder before graduating from Syracuse University in 2007. During her junior season in 2006, the Long Branch, N.J., resident scored 47 goals and was an All-Big East first-team selection as well ... Full Bio
With a defensive mindset, veteran lacrosse coach Bob Henderson’s job is to make opposing teams miserable. A former three-year starter and record-setting goalkeeper at Stevens Institute of Technology, Henderson has coached with numerous South Jersey ... Full Bio
Libby Hicks is a veteran lacrosse official in New Jersey who works both high school and college games.
She is accustomed to instructing youth girls' lacrosse players about the rules of the sport.
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Rachel Lenzo is an assistant coach at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. As part of the coaching staff, she has helped guide the Eagles to multiple Pennsylvania Athletic Conference championship titles and NCAA Tournament appearances.
A two-time ... Full Bio
Sheehan Stanwick Burch was a four-time All-American lacrosse player at Georgetown University. As a team captain 2001, she helped the Hoyas reach the NCAA Division I championship game. That same year, Stanwick Burch was honored as the NCAA Attack Player ... Full Bio
Tony Forfare tailors his golf instruction to individual golfers. He believes no one swing fits all.
Forfare has been a golf professional for 20 years and has taught the sport at Blue Herron Pines in Egg Harbor City, N.J., Talamore at Oak Terrace in ... Full Bio
Longtime gymnastics coach Meg Harris coaches the varsity gymnastics program at Middlebury (Vt.) Union High School, in addition to the district’s middle school program. Besides developing athletes, Harris believes gymnastics instructs ... Full Bio
Ted Annis is Director of Hockey at Princeton Sports Center in Monmouth Junction, N.J. Originally from Belleville, Ontario, Annis played junior hockey for the Junior A Kingston Voyageurs of the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League and then college ... Full Bio
Patrick Burke, the principal of Vermont's South Burlington High School, is a USA Hockey- and American Sport Education Program-certified hockey coach and a USA Hockey ACE (Association Coaching Education) Director.
Burke has coached at ... Full Bio
Head coach Guy Gadowsky has been the architect of Princeton University’s rise to the top of the ECAC Men's Hockey League.
During the 2007-08 season, the Tigers won a program-high 21 games and reached the NCAA Division I Tournament for just the ... Full Bio
Dave Scowby has 12 years of youth hockey coaching experience. For the last five years, he's been on the coaching staff of the New Jersey Kings, and prior to that spent seven years coaching in the Atlantic Youth Hockey League (AYHL). He's also an ... Full Bio
Nicole Uliasz is the girls' varsity ice hockey coach at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville. N.J. She is also assistant athletic director and sports information director at the prestigious prep school.
Uliasz began attending the University of ... Full Bio
Liam Banks is just as comfortable teaching lacrosse to youth players as he is playing for Major League Lacrosse. The attackman spent his sixth MLL season in 2009 with the Chicago Machine. He began his career with the New Jersey Pride in 2005 ... Full Bio
Getting in the way of 6-foot, 220-pound longstick defenseman Dan Cocoziello isn’t the smartest move. It’s intimidating just to stand next to the physical lacrosse player, let alone be guarded by him.
Cocoziello entered Major League Lacrosse ... Full Bio
Every time you turn, Matt Danowski is filling the nets with his offensive skills. The Major League Lacrosse attack is now playing for the Long Island Lizards after joining the league in 2008 as the No. 2 selection overall by the New Jersey Pride. He ... Full Bio
Opponents are not anxious to match up with Chris Eck inside the face-off circle. The Boston Cannons midfielder finished second in Major League Lacrosse in face-off wins and face-off percentage in 2009, and was named Most Improved Player by league head ... Full Bio
Think of all the great scorers in Major League Lacrosse history and Jesse Hubbard has outscored them all with record 247 goals. It was easy to tell he was headed to the milestone after leading the MLL in scoring in each of his first three seasons with ... Full Bio
Would the Heisman Trophy winner get selected on NFL draft day and be traded a few hours later? Not likely.
Well, the Chicago Machine of Major League Lacrosse had such fortune in 2008 when it received Tewaaraton Trophy winner Mike Leveille in a draft day ... Full Bio
A legendary name in lacrosse, Mike “Mikey” Powell is one of the more watched players in Major League Lacrosse. As a rookie in 2005, he poured in 27 goals for the Baltimore Bayhawks and was named Most Valuable Player of the MLL ... Full Bio
There wasn’t much of a learning curve for Denver Outlaws goalie Jesse Schwartzman during his 2008 rookie season in Major League Lacrosse. He had an 8-4 record and a .551 save percentage and led the Outlaws to the best regular-season record in the ... Full Bio
Bennett Harada, a member of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Airlines Skateboards team, has been skateboarding for 22 years. He loves to skate backyard pools, any kind of transition and going fast. His favorite tricks are ollies and grinding. Full Bio
The No. 13 isn't so unlucky. Jonathan Bornstein wore it while playing defense for five seasons for Major League Soccer's Chivas USA team. In 2006, Bornstein won MLS Rookie of the Year honors. Bornstein also has played for the USA ... Full Bio
Miguel Brunengo is an assistant men's soccer coach at C.W. Post on Long Island, N.Y.
A former youth national team player, Brunengo forged a reputation as a top youth coach. He led his B.W. Gottschee team to three consecutive Eastern New York Youth ... Full Bio
Jim Buchanan is the head trainer with Maestro Soccer in New Jersey. Licensed by the English FA, the USSF and the NSCAA, Buchanan has been working with youth players for many years.
Buchanan has worked with many youth clubs in New Jersey, ... Full Bio
Jimmy Conrad’s importance to the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer is underscored by the fact he played every minute during the 2008 regular season and postseason. That’s what happens for a player who is a five-time MLS All-Star, the ... Full Bio
Dewayne De Rosario is an attacking midfielder who in 2009 joined Toronto FC for his ninth season in Major League Soccer. His teams have never failed to make the MLS postseason and his golden goal as a rookie gave the San Jose Earthquakes the 2001 MLS ... Full Bio
Nick Harrison coaches in the West Windsor-Plainsboro (N.J.) Youth Soccer Association and on the travel team level. Formerly a coach with Scunthorpe United and Liverpool University in England, and Hawaii Pacific University, Harrison is a ... Full Bio
Kevin Mackenzie is the head girls' soccer coach at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North in Plainsboro, N.J. He is adept at coaching technical and tactical aspects of soccer. Full Bio
Giovanni Pacini has coached the Division II Lasell College (Newton, Mass.) men's soccer program since 1998 and has 28 years of coaching experience. He has led two teams to North Atlantic Conference championships, while earning ... Full Bio
Paul Riley has had a long and successful soccer career, both as a player and a coach. Signing for his hometown club Liverpool FC in the UK, he was the youth team's MVP. He played collegiately at Adelphi University. As a professional, he represented the ... Full Bio
Pitcher Stacy Birk joined the Philadelphia Force of National Pro Fastpitch in 2007 and began her third season in 2009. The right-hander earned her first pro win in 2007 by beating the eventual league champion, Washington Glory, 3-2. She started 10 games ... Full Bio
Coach Kelly Jackson is president and lead instructor of the All-American Softball School in West Sacramento, Calif., where she professionally trains coaches and athletes. Jackson is a former All-Pac-10 player who won a gold medal with the 1992 USA ... Full Bio
Margo Pruis is a versatile right-handed pitcher with the Philadelphia Force of National Pro Fastpitch. The 6-foot-1 standout is used as both a starter and a reliever. She joined the Force in 2007 after a stellar career at Wichita State, and won ... Full Bio
Jodie Ricciardi is an experienced softball collegiate coach at three New Jersey colleges, Drew University, The College of New Jersey and Princeton University. She currently coaches softball at clinics and camps, and through ... Full Bio
The 2009 season was pitcher Jessica Sallinger’s fourth in National Pro Fastpitch, and first with the Philadelphia Force. Previously, the right-hander pitched for the Chicago Bandits. Her best season with the Bandits came in 2007, when she posted a ... Full Bio
Jim Stricchiola has been playing and coaching softball for the past 26 years. He has coached everything from adult men's softball teams to youth softball teams and runs softball leagues in New Jersey. He has instructed countless softball ... Full Bio
Sam Yodowitz made her National Pro Fastpitch debut in 2009 as a pitcher with the Philadelphia Force. A left-hander who is accustomed to shouldering a big workload, she got right into coaching as an assistant at her alma mater, C.W. Post, before joining ... Full Bio
Rick Wolff was drafted after his junior year at Harvard and played in the Detroit Tigers' minor league system. He also was the head baseball coach for eight years at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., where several of his teams were nationally ranked ... Full Bio
Rick Wolff was drafted after his junior year at Harvard and played in the Detroit Tigers' minor league system. He also was the head baseball coach for eight years at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., where several of his teams were nationally ranked ... Full Bio
Longtime tennis instructor Kirk Anderson is the USTA's director of recreational coaches and programs.
In 2003, the International Tennis Hall of Fame honored him with its Tennis Educational Merit Award. Three years later, Racquet Sports ... Full Bio
A native of Israel, Gilad Bloom played on the ATP Tour from 1983 to 1995. Having competed in the Davis Cup on Israel's behalf for 11 years and represented his home country in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, Gilad reached his highest ranking as a pro ... Full Bio
Anne Davis, the USTA's product manager of recreational programming, is the innovator of QuickStart Tennis, which allows children to have a successful experience learning and playing tennis.
Davis coached the Florida State University ... Full Bio
Michael Metz is the tennis pro at Manoglia Tennis Club in Columbus, Miss.
He was a player at Mississippi State from 1995-98, when each of his Bulldogs teams finished with a top 10 ranking nationally. As a senior, he was part of an ... Full Bio
Merry Van Dyke is a professional tennis instructor. She has been an instructor for the Princeton Tennis Program since 2005. She was also a tennis pro for Cherry Valley Country Club in 2006, and has worked at Princeton Indoor Tennis since 1998. Full Bio
Mike Jackson has nearly two decades of experience playing and coaching Ultimate Frisbee. He plays in New Jersey's Mercer County Ultimate Disc League (MCUDL), the longest-running Ultimate Frisbee league in the nation. He is a two-time ... Full Bio
Allison Lebar has enjoyed great success as the varsity girls' volleyball coach at Riverdale Country School in New York. She has consistently led her program to the New York state tournament.
Lebar bases her instruction on volleyball fundamentals.
Prior ... Full Bio
Director Essex Volleyball Club/NJ
Ed has been with the Essex Volleyball Club since 1995. He serves as the President and Technical Director of the club. He has 27 years of high school and club experience winning many state titles. Ed has had the ... Full Bio
Dave is the Head Wrestling Coach at the Edge School of Wrestling in Hoboken and the Hoboken PAL Youth Wrestling Team. He has been involved in wrestling for 25 years. He wrestled at Lehigh University where he received his B.S. in Marketing and ... Full Bio
Ralph Napolitano is the successful varsity wrestling coach at Brentwood High School in Brentwood, N.Y. In 2008, he led Brentwood to the Suffolk County title and then the New York Section XI title. During his coaching career, Ralph has been a recipient of ... Full Bio
Carlos Restrepo coaches wrestling at Brentwood High School in Brentwood, N.Y. During his college career at Ithaca College, Restrepo was a two-time All-American and a two-time Academic All-American. Full Bio
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