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Adelphi University

Garden City, NY 11530
New York Northeast
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Brooke DeRosa

Brooke DeRosa was named as the seventh head coach of the Adelphi University women's soccer team on April 30, 2015, and enters her seventh season in 2021.


In her first three seasons, DeRosa has helped lead the program to heights not seen this decade, which included its first Northeast-10 Conference Championship title and three total berths in the NCAA Tournament, including a pair of appearances in the NCAA Division II East Region finals.


Named the NE10 Coach of the Year by her peers in her first season, where her team claimed both the regular season and tournament titles in the conference, DeRosa and the Panthers posted a 19-game unbeaten streak, before making their deepest run in the NCAA Tournament since finishing as national runner-ups in 2004.


Prior to arriving at Adelphi, DeRosa spent two seasons as an assistant coach at St. John’s University. During that time, she helped the Red Storm to appearances in the Big East Tournament semifinals and an NCAA berth in 2013, where the program notched its first ever NCAA Tournament win over the University of Central Florida, 3-1.


Before her stint with the Red Storm, DeRosa was an assistant coach at her alma mater, Hofstra University, where she was an All-American in 2007. DeRosa also served as head women's soccer coach at Nassau Community College from 2011-12. During her one year at Nassau, she coached the Lions to an 8-5-3 record and saw eight players earn All-Region XV honors, including five first-team selections.


DeRosa’s playing career began at Syracuse, where she was a Big East All-Rookie selection in 2002 as a midfielder/defender. DeRosa played three years with the Orange, before transferring back to Long Island to play at Hofstra. During her one season with Hofstra, she was moved to forward and helped the Pride to an 18-4 record, a Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship and a trip to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. For her efforts, DeRosa earned Third Team All-America honors from the NSCAA, was a First Team All-CAA selection, as well as a CAA All-Tournament team member.


A local standout, DeRosa played for the Long Island Rough Riders organization from 2002-04 and from 2007-12 and helped the team to a W-League Northeast Conference title in 2012.


DeRosa earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in Ceramics from Syracuse University and a master of science in Art Education from Hofstra University. She currently resides in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., with her daughter, Ciara.

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Paul Yarde

Paul Yarde recently concluded his seventh season as an assistant coach with the Adelphi University women's soccer team in 2022.


Since teaming up with Brooke DeRosa, Yarde's tutelage has helped deliver seven winning seasons, four NCAA Tournament bids, two appearances in the NE10 Championship final and an NE10 Tournament crown in 2015.


A coach and trainer with the Met Oval Brooklyn Knights and the Massapequa Soccer Club, Yarde arrived at Adelphi, after being a member of the men's and women's coaching staffs at his alma mater, Dowling College.


A native of Barbados, Yarde was a three-time MVP of the Notre Dame Football Club, the second-most successful club in Barbados football history, and still holds scoring records for the Barbados Defense Force.


Yarde played his college soccer at Dowling, where he helped the Golden Lions to three NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 2001.


A youth soccer trainer across Long Island, Yarde has personally trained members of the U.S. Youth National Team and coached the No.1 ranked team in the country in the U-12 age group in 2009. He also holds an Advanced National License from the United Soccer Coaches' Association and is CPR/AED certified.

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Gary Book

After a nationwide search, Gary Book was announced as the ninth head coach of the Adelphi men's soccer program, effective May 21, 2018. He enters his fifth season is 2022.


Book's four years have seen the Panthers pick up from where former coach Carlo Acquista left off.


The 2022 campaign saw Adelphi's return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019. A pair of clean sheets against regional contenders Post and Wilmington to open the year led the way for a 9-5-6 finish for the Panthers. With Book's squad on the tournament bubble, Adelphi was the last team into the big dance as the No. 10 seed in Super Region I.


In Book's inaugural season (2018), Adelphi went 17-4-2 and captured an NE10 Tournament Championship, just the program's second since joining the league back in 2009. The Panthers would earn the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and dispatched LIU Post, 2-0, in the East Region final, before falling to eventual national runner-up West Chester by a 2-0 final in the national quarterfinals.


Then, in 2019, Book's squad opened the season on an unprecedented 15-game unbeaten streak (14-0-1), en route to receiving the No. 1 national ranking in the United Soccer Coaches Division II Poll for the first time in program history. That ultimately led to Book getting his first-ever nod as the NE10 Coach of the Year. Despite bowing out in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Adelphi finished the season at 15-3-1 overall and came away with its fourth-consecutive NE10 regular-season title.


Book came to Adelphi with over two decades on Division I sidelines, having spent 13 seasons at Hofstra University as both an assistant and associate head coach. Prior to his time in Hempstead, Book was an assistant coach at St. John's University from 1992-2004.


"It is a tremendous honor and I am humbled to be selected as the next head men's soccer coach at Adelphi University," Book said. "The program has a rich tradition of success, and I am proud to follow in the steps of Mel Less, Bob Montgomery and Carlo Acquista. I am extremely excited to be a part of furthering that incredible heritage of accomplishment, both on and off of the field. I would like to thank President, Dr. Christine Riordan, and Director of Athletics Danny McCabe for giving me this opportunity."


While with the Pride, Book's teams won four Colonial Athletic Association Tournament titles and three CAA regular-season championships. These teams posted a record of .500 or better in 10 seasons, including six consecutive, with Hofstra holding a 120-94-37 record, since Book joined the staff in 2005, and helped lead the Pride to three NCAA Tournament berths.


At St. John's, Book was an assistant coach on the 1996 squad that captured the first national championship in Red Storm history in any sport. His teams also qualified for the NCAA Tournament in all 13 seasons, with nine appearances in the Sweet 16 and three Final Fours. In addition, St. John's captured five Big East regular-season championships and six Big East Tournament titles.


"We are thrilled to welcome Gary Book as our next head coach to the Adelphi soccer family," McCabe added. "Gary has dedicated his life to the game of soccer and over the past several years, he has done that right here in the New York metropolitan community. He has a great knowledge of the game, to go along with a stellar reputation as a teacher and leader. Gary shares our goal of providing the best possible experience for our student-athletes."


Book graduated from the University of Winchester, England with a bachelor of education with honors in Human Development and Coaching. He has also served as a staff coach with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA, now United Soccer Coaches), the technical director of the Long Island Junior Soccer League, and the director of the Olympic Development Program of Eastern New York.


Book's Year-by-Year Coaching Record


1 NE10 Championship, 4 NE10 Tournament Appearances, 1 NE10 Final Appearance, 3 NCAA Tournament Appearances

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Chris Megaloudis

In 2022, Chris Megaloudis is set to assume the lead assistant role with the nationally-recognized Adelphi men's soccer program.


That debut season on the sidelines with the Panthers culminated in a trip to the NCAA Tournament -- the program's first appearance since 2019.


Shortly after wrapping up his professional career, Megaloudis joined the Nassau Community College women's soccer team as an assistant coach in 2012 and eventually carried the program to unprecedented heights.


In his five years (2017-21) as the head coach at Nassau, Megaloudis produced a 42-20-6 (.662) record and led the Lions to three NJCAA Region XV Championships, two NJCAA District titles and a pair of trips to the NJCAA Division III National Championship. He was named the NJCAA Region XV Coach of the Year following his debut campaign in 2017.


Megaloudis was signed by the New York Red Bulls in 2008 and spent nearly five years with the Puerto Rico National Team, scoring nine goals in national team competition and appearing in six CONCACAF World Cup qualifying matches.


After graduating from Monsignor McClancy High School in 2002 as the school's all-time leading scorer, Megaloudis played four seasons on the NCAA Division I circuit.


At his first stop, Megaloudis earned First Team All-MAAC and NSCAA All-Atlantic Region honors in 2003 for Saint Peter's University. Two years later, he was a First Team America East All-Conference selection and the team's leading goal-scorer at Stony Brook University.


A native of Astoria, Megaloudis is the coaching director of Auburndale Soccer Club in Bayside, Queens. He is also the cousin of former Adelphi men's soccer student-athlete, Stephen Megaloudis.


Megaloudis resides in North Bellmore, N.Y. with his wife, Kristine and daughter, Cristina.

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