Coach Lusk is in her second year at the helm of the Lady Spartans. The 2009-2010 women's basketball team finished with an overall record of 7-21. STAC finished in eighth place in the ECC earning the last playoff spot, where the Lady Spartans fell to Queens College, 56-44.
Lusk comes to STAC following five years as Head Women's Basketball Coach at New Jersey Institute of Technology. During her first four years as the head coach, the program was a Division II member of the Central Atlantic Conference. In those years, Lusk produced a win/lose record of 63-49. Lusk's third season (2004 - 05) saw the Highlanders post a program-best 18 wins and earn NJIT women's basketball its first postseason berth beyond its own conference tournament (2005 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division II Championship Tournament). With a combined three-year record of 46-40, Lusk became the winningest career coach in the young program's history.
In her final season at the helm of the program (2006-07), NJIT began the process of reclassifying to NCAA Division I, where they Highlanders finished 4-24 as an independent member. Lusk piloted NJIT to its first Division I win in the third game of the season, a 91-70 victory over Norfolk State. Following the 2006-2007 season, Lusk took one year off to spend time with her young family.
In her first season at NJIT (2002-2003), Lusk, who was named "interim" head coach, was 24 years old and was noted as one of the youngest Division II coaches in the country. She guided NJIT to a 16-12 record, tying the existing school record for victories in a season, and advanced the team to the conference tournament semi-finals. The "interim" tag was removed from her coaching title in April 2003 and she was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics at the same time.
Before being named Head Coach at NJIT, Lusk spent one year as the top assistant for NJIT, in which she helped turn around a program that had only won four games the previous season. Prior to NJIT, Lusk spent two years as a graduate assistant at the University of New Haven where she completed her MBA with a concentration in Sports Management.
Lusk was a four-year swing player and two-year captain at Southern Connecticut State University, graduating in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She holds the Owls school record for assists in a game, dishing out 15 against Albertus Magnus College during her junior year.
Lusk resides in West Nyack, NY with her husband, Jim, and their
two daughters, Madison (4) and Kallie (3).
