Head Coach
Lisa Gigliello
lgigliel@kings.edu
Head coach Lisa Gigliello took over the reigns of the
Lady Monarch program during the 1994 season and has transformed King's
into one of the premier programs in the Middle Atlantic
Conference.
Gigliello had served as a King's assistant for four
seasons before being promoted to head coach. In her first season,
Gigliello took over a program which had won only four games in 1993 and
promptly doubled the squad's victories in her first season. Vast
improvement continued into the 1995 campaign as Gigliello led the Lady
Monarchs to a 14-17 record, narrowly missing the MAC playoffs in the
process.
In 1996, Gigliello led King's to its first-ever
post-season playoff berth as the team advanced to the MAC "Final
Four". In 1997, Gigliello coached King's to the program's
first-ever 20-win campaign. After another 20-plus win campaign in 1998,
Gigliello led the Lady Monarchs to their first post-season championship
ever when the Lady Monarchs captured the 1999 Eastern College Athletic
Conference Southern Region championship.
In 2000, Gigliello led King's to its finest season
ever when the Lady Monarchs captured the MAC Freedom League
championship, the MAC overall title, and advanced to the NCAA Division
III National Tournament for the first time in school history. After
guiding King's to a program best 38-6 mark, Gigliello was named MAC
Freedom "Coach of the Year."
Her career head coaching mark at King's is 140-89-1,
but the team has had gone 103-38-1 since the 1997 season. Since
Gigliello took over the program in 1994, a total of 25 Lady Monarch
players have been named to the MAC All-Star Team, 10 others have been
named NCAA East Regional All-Americans, while 26 student-athletes have
been named to the MAC All-Academic team.
Gigliello is a graduate of Wilkes University where she
earned a degree in electrical engineering. She also enjoyed an
outstanding softball career as a two-time Middle Atlantic Conference
All-Star. During her career, Wilkes won the MAC title and was ranked
10th in the nation. She was awarded Wilkes' Senior Student-Athlete Award
for academic and athletic success.
A graduate of nearby Pittston Area High School where
she was team most valuable player, Gigliello is a seven-time medalist in
the Keystone State Games. She has been a player/manager on four ASA
state championship summer league teams, as well as playing on two other
title teams which have been ranked 13th in the nation.
Gigliello is assisted by Joann Matt, a fellow graduate
of Wilkes where she was a softball standout. Matt was also a member of
four state championship teams with Coach Gigliello.
