After two successful decades spent at other nearby institutions, Greg Lusardi returned to the William Paterson football coaching staff for the 2014 campaign. The program’s Co-Recruiting Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach, Lusardi spent three years with the running backs (2019-21), four seasons coaching linebackers (2014-16, 2018) and one previous season with the offensive line (2017).
Following the 2019 season, two of Lusardi’s charges earned postseason accolades. Terrique Riddick was named to the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Offensive Rookie of the Year and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Offensive Rookie of the Year, while Marcel Mason earned all-NJAC honorable mention laurels. In 2021, Riddick was a first-team all-NJAC and second-team all-ECAC pick.
With nearly four decades of coaching experience under his belt, Lusardi came back to WP after previously serving as the team’s defensive coordinator and assistant head coach from 1989-94. He was instrumental to the Pioneers establishing their best five-year record in school history (31-20-1), including bids to the 1993 NCAA Playoffs and the 1991 ECAC Playoffs. During his second stint on the William Paterson sideline, he helped Carlo Caponetta earn 2015 second-team all-conference laurels, and Charles Faulkner and Taheem Jackson secure 2016 honorable-mention all-league status.
Before returning to WP, Lusardi spent the previous nine years as the head football coach at Morris Catholic High School, where he helped develop six all-state, 24 all-county and 28 all-conference players during his tenure. In 2007, he was honored as the Morris County Coach of the Year by the Star Ledger.
From 1994-2005, Lusardi served as the head coach at Pace University and achieved a top-10 ranking among Division II non-scholarship schools during nine of his 11 seasons. He also mentored 28 all-Americans during his time at the helm.
Prior to WP, Lusardi was the offensive coordinator at The Defiance College from 1988-89, and the head (1984-88) and assistant (1977-84) coach at Morris Catholic High School where he led the program to the state final in 1987.
Lusardi earned a bachelor of science in health and physical education from Slippery Rock State College in 1975, where he spent two seasons as a player and one year as a student assistant for the football team, and completed a master’s in athletic administration at Montclair State in 1985.