Northwestern University Athletics
NU Welcomes Assistant Coach to Staff
3/6/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
March 6, 2003
EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern men's soccer head coach Tim Lenahan announced the welcomed addition of Justin Serpone to the coaching staff. Serpone's main charge will be the development of the goalkeepers. He will also be heavily involved in providing scouting reports, individual training, camp development and community and alumni relations.
Serpone's first collegiate coaching experience came the last two years at Lafayette College, where Lenahan served as head coach from 1998-2000. At Lafayette, Serpone organized the recruiting efforts and soccer camps, besides training the men's and women's goalkeepers. Serpone has experience at several other levels as well. He was an assistant coach for the HUB Soccer Club in Denville, N.J. for one year and also spent a season with the Boston Lightning Soccer Club in Medford, Mass.
"It is great to have Justin on the staff," Lenahan said."He has done a great job at Lafayette over the past two years working with Coach Bohn. He developed a great relationship with the players there, many of whom I had coached. They all had great things to say about his work ethic and personality, which will certainly help in our quest to build the program."
Serpone was a goalkeeper on the Drew University men's soccer team for four seasons from 1997-2001. In his senior season, his squad posted a 15-5-1 record and won the Freedom Conference championship with a 7-0 mark. In 2001, the program earned its third consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament and claimed its first ever tournament win, defeating Rochester Institute of Technology, 2-0, in the Mid Atlantic Regionals.
A native of Winchester, Mass., Serpone graduated from Drew with a bachelor of arts degree in economics and a minor in computer science. Serpone's successes on the playing field were supplemented by that of service activities. He served as president of the Student Government Association for two terms and also founded Students Against Violence Everywhere in 1999, in addition to helping with other service organizations.
