Long Island University

Brookville, NY 11548

New York Northeast

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Lucy Gillett

Lucy Gillett played goalkeeper professionally with Brighton & Hove Albion as well as Crystal Palace in England.

Now, after a season as an assistant coach with the LIU women’s soccer team, she ascended to the head role with the Sharks in April 2022.

Gillett, a Long Islander who attended South Side High School in Rockville Centre, already had experience as a collegiate coach when she arrived at LIU.

She served as an assistant coach at St. John’s for one season before joining the Sharks for the 2021-22 academic year in a similar capacity.

Gillett played a combined four collegiate seasons at Hofstra University and Springfield College. She went a combined 21-8 with 12 shutouts and a 0.79 goals against average during the final two seasons with Springfield, in 2013 and ’14, while qualifying for the NCAA Tournament both seasons.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Springfield College.

Gillett earned her coaching badges at Brighton’s academy during her playing days abroad.

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Melina Couzis

Melina Couzis joined the LIU women’s soccer program as an assistant coach ahead of the 2023 season.

Couzis played for UConn as an undergraduate, then as a graduate transfer at St. John’s in 2022.

With the Huskies, Couzis made 61 career appearances (46 starts).

For the spring 2020 season, she was a United Soccer Coaches East Region second-team selection and All-Big East first-team honoree as well as a Big East All-Tournament and Big East Scholar-Athlete of the Year honoree. Couzis started all 12 games that season and logged a team-high 1,124 minutes as UConn produced shutouts in half of its matches.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from UConn and then taking a year away from collegiate soccer while pursuing a master’s degree in translational medicine, Couzis returned to collegiate action with St. John’s in 2022.

She made 18 appearances (14 starts) with the Red Storm that season, tallying one goal and a team-high-matching five assists. Couzis earned Big East All-Tournament recognition after St. John’s overtime loss to Xavier in the semifinals.

Couzis holds a master’s of science in translational medicine from the City College of New York and a master’s in business administration from St. John’s.

She earned four varsity letters at Somers High School in Lincolndale, N.Y., during a prep career that included scoring 60 goals and 63 assists. Her team won the 2014 New York State Class A Championship. Couzis was a two-year captain and a 2016 NSCAA All-American and was selected to play in the 2016 All-American game.

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Michael Mordocco

Michael Mordocco completed his sixth season as the head coach of the LIU men's soccer program in 2022.

In 2021, Mordocco led the Sharks to an NEC regular-season title, an NEC tournament championship and to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. LIU upset the University of Maryland in the first round. Several Sharks received high honors, highlighted by Emil Jaaskelianen on the United Soccer Coaches All-Northeast Region first team. More recognition followed as Henry Haferkorn and Fridtjof Andberg were featured on the All-Northeast Region second team. Mordocco also guided nine other players to All-NEC honors while also mentoring the NEC Goalkeeper of the Year, Demetri Skoumbakis. Skoumbakis was also valedictorian of Long Island University’s graduating class of 2022.

The Sharks program played an abbreviated season in spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled fall 2020 play. Mordocco led the Sharks to a second-place finish and an appearance in the NEC championship match. Fridtjof Andberg, Jonas Dovland, Assane Ben Fall and Emil Jaaskelainen received All-Northeast Region honors. Jaasakelainen was also recognized as the NEC Rookie of the Year.

In 2019, Mordocco helped mentor a consensus All-American in graduate student Lukas Ostermann. Mordocco helped guide the Pioneers to their fourth-consecutive East Coast Conference championship with a 2-0 victory against Mercy College during the championship match. The Green and Gold eventually reached the East Region championship match against local rival Adelphi University where they fell on a snowy afternoon at Pioneer Soccer Park.

Mordocco brings an extensive resume to Brookville, most recently holding the position of associate head coach at the University of Massachusetts for three seasons. During his time with the Minutemen, he was a part of a staff that earned 2017 Atlantic-10 Coaches of the Year, while also leading UMass to a conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance.

Before his time at UMass, Mordocco spent four seasons as an assistant coach with the University of Connecticut, where he helped guide the Huskies to three NCAA Tournament quarterfinal appearances. Mordocco helped produce 12 Major League Soccer draft picks, including two No. 1 overall selections, in 2013 and 2014.

In addition to his roles at UMass and UConn, Mordocco has several additional years of collegiate experience, as an assistant at Division I Stony Brook and Division III SUNY Oneonta.

As a player, Mordocco spent four seasons at UConn, from 1998-2001. He won the NCAA national championship during the 2000 season. when he helped the Huskies to a 21-3-1 record. He earned a bachelor of liberal arts degree in economics in 2002.

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Tyler Botte

Tyler Botte joined the LIU men's soccer program as assistant coach in the spring of 2023.

He arrived from Molloy University, where he led the program to the 2021 East Coast Conference postseason title and an NCAA Tournament appearance, and won or drew 19 of 21 games against conference opponents spanning two seasons as the head coach.

Molloy's two years under Botte were the most decorated back-to-back seasons in program history.

His 2022 Lions team became the program's first to earn an ECC regular-season title, going undefeated in league play at 6-0-2. Molloy had five first-team All-ECC selections that season.

Botte had been named Molloy's head coach in May 2020, making him one of the youngest head coaches in NCAA Division II at the time, at 27 years old. He compiled a 17-11-13 overall record as a head coach at the Division II school.

He previously spent a combined six seasons as an associate head coach and assistant coach with Molloy.

Botte played collegiately at Hofstra, tallying 12 goals and six assists in 67 matches.

He earned second-team All-America honors in 2012 and served as captain. He also played in USL League Two with the Long Island Rough Riders.

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Jesse Corke

Jesse Corke joined the LIU men's soccer team as an assistant coach, specializing in goalkeepers, for the 2022 season.

He played goalkeeper professionally with the New York Cosmos from 2019 through ’21 and also with Westfalia Wickede in Germany.

Corke previously coached at Molloy, where he had a standout playing career that included a 1.72 GAA and .745 save percentage spanning five seasons. He was the 2014 East Coast Conference Goalkeeper of the Year.