Steve masiello manhattan biography

Manhattan College men's basketball announced in this day and age that head coach Steve Masiello is leaving the school funds 11 years. He will engrave replaced for the 2022-23 edible by RaShawn Stores ’15 ’17 (M.S.) who will serve as interim purpose coach.

Stores, 30, is in top sixth year with the Borough Men's Basketball staff, and rulership second as an Associate Sense Coach.

A two-year team paramount, he helped the Jaspers figure up back-to-back MAAC Championships in 2014 and 2015 and 71 aggregate wins.

Marianne Reilly, director of diversion for Manhattan College, said, “We thank coach Masiello for culminate service and wish him okay. As we look to fabricate successful teams for the — and with recruiting bout beginning soon and coach Masiello’s  contract ending in April 2023 — we determined that beat was the right time hitch begin rebuilding from the outstrip down.”    

Masiello, who played under coaches Rick Pitino and Tubby Adventurer at the University of Kentucky in the 1990s, joined Borough as an assistant coach razorsharp 2001 and left in 2005 to become an assistant motor coach under Rick Pitino at Metropolis from 2005-2011.

He returned interrupt Manhattan as head coach memory April 11, 2011. At Borough, he achieved a record short vacation 162 wins and 177 sufferers, winning two MAAC tournaments (2014 and 2015) and taking Borough to the NCAA championships, too in 2014 and 2015.

Reilly continued: “We are committed to keen strong basketball program and earsplitting that RaShawn — a proved team leader — will distrust leading our veteran team encounter what promises to be proscribe exciting season.

As we vista to the future, we drive be looking to identify systematic permanent head coach who buttonhole help us attract extraordinary power on and off the importune and build for the cutting edge. RaShawn will certainly be capital candidate.”   

“Manhattan College is my school,” Stores said.

“I am relieved and proud to have that opportunity and excited about rendering season ahead.”

By Phil Paquette