Brad Conlon joined the NJIT men’s lacrosse program as an assistant coach for the 2014-15 academic year in time to assist the school’s first-ever varsity lacrosse team.
Conlon comes to the Highlanders after spending the previous season as an assistant at Princeton, where he was assistant defensive coordinator and goaltending coach for a Tigers team that finished with a 7-6 record and was ranked in the national poll at points in the 2014 season.
Prior to Princeton, Conlon coached at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, NC, from 2010 until July 2013. During that time, the NCAA Division II Pfeiffer Falcons were a combined 36-16, including 13-4 in his final season. Conlon was defensive coordinator and goaltending coach as an assistant at Pfeiffer and finished up his tenure with the program as Interim Head Coach at the start of the 2013 offseason before departing for Princeton.
Like NJIT’s head coach, Travis Johnson, Conlon is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and, like Johnson, he began his coaching career at RIT. Conlon was an assistant coach with the RIT Tigers in the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
Prior to coming to NJIT, Conlon has coached four All-Americans, 27 all-conference players, two Freshmen of the Year, three Defenders of the Year, and three Goalies of the Year, all in a span of six seasons.
In addition to his bachelor’s degree from RIT(2009), Conlon earned an MBA from Pfeiffer (2013).
