Joe Curreri enters his 5th season with the Spartans and will serve as a volunteer this season.  He has wasted no time making an impact as the Spartan pitchers have consistently maintained an ERA in the low 3.00s and finished 3rd and 2nd respectively in 2009 & 2010. in 2010 junior pitcher Mike Aviles was drafted by the Seattle Mariners. In 2011, Spartans led the ECC in lowest opponent batting average (.225).

An Albertus Magnus graduate, Curreri was instrumental in helping his high school team reach a #3 ranking in the state. Upon graduation he pitched collegiately for Long Island University where he was in the top ten in strike outs per nine innings in 1999.  That same year he was selected by Chicago White Sox in 23rd Round of the MLB Draft and went on to play six years with the White Sox Organization. He led the Carolina League in appearances in 2001.  As a professional pitcher, he maintained a 1:1 innings to strikeouts ratio.  Reconstructive shoulder surgery ended his playing career.
 
His coaching career began in 2005 as the pitching coach for the Rockland Brewers. That team made it to the NABF World Series.  He has recently served as the winter & summer pitching instructor of the Diesel Baseball Club of Rockland County and the fall pitching instructor for the Teel Ravens of Bergen County, NJ.   This past summer he served as the pitching coach for the Hudson Mudcats of the WRWBL. He also conducts private pitching lessons at the KZone in Nanuet and Garrett Teels at NVSA in Closter, NJ
 
He resides in Nanuet, NY and has a full time teaching job as a physical education instructor.