coach_years current_team coach_team awards current_title sport current_conference article_title name alma_mater
1989 2006 -- 2010 2011 -- present -- 1993 1994 -- 1998 1999 -- 2002 fairleigh dickinson old westbury manhattan suffolk county cc briarcliffe fairleigh dickinson maac knickerbocker conference coach of the year : 1993 coach of the year : 1996 , 1998 head coach baseball northeast conference gary puccio
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gary puccio

gary puccio is an american college baseball coach , currently serving as head coach of the fairleigh dickinson knights baseball team .
he was named to that position prior to the 2011 season .
puccio earned his degree at c. w. post , and later added a pair of master 's degrees from dowling college .
he served as a scout for the seattle mariners organization for many years , and as head coach at several levels of baseball .
he began at division iii suny old westbury for five seasons before moving to his first division i job at manhattan .
he helped develop a struggling program and registered 20 wins in 1998 , the first time the jaspers had accomplished that since 1903 .
he then coached at suffolk county community college for four seasons .
he later led uscaa briarcliffe to five straight national tournaments , including a pair of national championships , from 2006 -- 2010 .
he took over at fairleigh dickinson in the summer of 2010 .
prior to taking over the knights , he also taught math at island trees high school in levittown , new york , coaching baseball while not working at the college level .
