Staff
Michael Mordocco, Head Coach
Michael Mordocco completed his second season as the head coach of the LIU men's soccer program in 2019.
During his first season, he 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 this season. Before his time at UMass, Mordocco spent four seasons as an Assistant Coach for 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 number one overall selections in 2013 and 2014.
In addition to his roles at UMass and UConn, Mordocco brings several years of collegiate experience as an assistant at Division I Stony Brook University and Division III SUNY Oneonta.
As a player, Mordocco spent four seasons at UConn from 1998-2001, winning 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.
| Year | W | L | T | Postseason |
| 2018 | 14 | 5 | 1 | ECC Champions, NCAA East Region Final |
| 2019 | 10 | 7 | 2 | NEC Finals |
| Career | 24 | 12 | 3 |
Luca Campos, Assistant Coach
Luca Campos joined the LIU Post coaching staff as an assistant prior to the 2018 season.
Campos comes to LIU Post after most recently serving as the assistant coach at Mercyhurst University for two seasons, helping guide the Lakers to a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship in 2016. Campos also added a year of collegiate coaching experience at the University of Massachusetts, helping to mentor the Midshipmen to an Atlantic-10 tournament appearance in 2015.
During his career, Campos played four seasons for Robert Morris University where he started in 62 of his 66 appearances, scoring seven goals and adding six assists for 20 points. Campos graduated from Robert Morris with a bachelor's degree in sport management, and furthered his education at Mercyhurst where he earned his master's degree in organizational leadership and sport leadership in 2018.
Gianni Giragosian, Assistant Coach
Giragosian graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor degree in public health sciences. He served as a volunteer assistant coach at UMASS with the men’s program in 2017 and was part of a staff that helped led the team to an Atlantic-10 (A-10) conference title and NCAA Tournament appearance.
Most recently, he was part of an LIU Post staff that helped the team and East Coast Conference (ECC) title and to the NCAA regional finals.
Brendan Reardon, Volunteer Assistant Coach
Reardon began his college career at Iona College before transferring to Providence College. At Providence, he won a Big East regular season title in 2016 and made it to the Elite Eight. That year, he scored in an opening round NCAA Tournament match against the University of Delaware.
Since then, he has worked the Village of Branch Soccer Club and also at St. Anthony’s High School. At St. Anthony’s, he worked at both the freshman and varsity level along with breaking down and analyzing video for the varsity team.
Yohance Alexander, Student Assistant Coach
Alexander will serve as a student assistant coach for the Sharks. After playing two seasons at Hill College, he was an East Coast Conference (ECC) All-Conference honoree for LIU Post in 2018 and helped lead the team to a conference title and NCAA tournament appearance.
He started in 13 of 17 appearances and scored three goals and had one assist. In his first start at Roberts Wesleyan College he scored the match-winning goal and he also started all four postseason contests.
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