Kim Lusk
Kim Lusk
Title: Women's Basketball Head Coach
Phone: 845-398-4026
Email: klusk@stac.edu
College: Southern Connecticut '99

Coach Lusk is has completed four years at the helm of the Lady Spartans.  The Lady Spartans are coming off another successful season finishing 3rd in the competitive East Coast Conference and advanced to the conference championship for the first time in recent years.  Lusk 's best season with the Lady Spartans came in 2010-11 when she guided STAC to a Regular Season Championship and a 22-8 record.  Lusk was named the ECC Coach of the Year as well as the Met Division II Coach of the Year in 2011. 

Prior to STAC Lusk served 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 (7), Kallie (6) and the newest addition to their family, Jackson, who was born on October 26, 2011.   

Nicole Ballou
Nicole Ballou
Title: Women's Basketball Assistant
Phone: 845-398-4163
Email: nballou@stac.edu
College: NJIT '03
Selena Kershaw
Selena Kershaw
Title: Women's Basketball Assistant
Phone: 845-398-4163
Email: skershaw@stac.edu
College: NJIT '06
Theresa Dowling
Theresa Dowling
Title: Women's Basketball Assistant
Phone: 845-398-4163
Email: tdowling@stac.edu
College: STAC '10
Jenny Jurjevic
Jenny Jurjevic
Title: Women's Basketball Assistant
Phone: 845-398-4163
Email: jjurjevi@stac.edu
College: Iona '06


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