Anthony “Tony” Scorciolla owns more than 30 years of soccer coaching experience at the high-school, college and professional levels. Ten of them, from 1997-2006, were spent as the head men’s coach at Felician.
Scorciolla took over the Golden Falcons in their second year of existence and posted a won-lost-tied record of 10-6-1 in 1997. Three years later, his Felician squad made school history.
The 2000 Felician men’s soccer team set a school record for victories that still stands, going 15-7-1. They joined that year’s men’s cross-country squad as the first Golden Falcon teams to win a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference championship, win a regional title, and advance to national competition. Scorciolla was named NAIA Region X Coach of the Year.
The Golden Falcons repeated all three accomplishments in 2001, going 13-10. In all, Sciorciolla led his team to the CACC playoffs in all eight of his seasons in which it was a member of the league, reaching the finals four times. Felician was also the ECAC D-II runner-up in 2002.
Scorciolla is Felician’s all-time winningest men’s soccer coach, with a record of 89-87-13 (.505). His Golden Falcon teams had a .625 winning percentage in CACC play. He was also the first men’s coach at Caldwell College, winning the CACC Coach of the Year award in 1993, and owns 120 collegiate victories.
A longtime physical education teacher in the Newark public school system, Scorciolla is the head girls’ coach at Verona High School. He won a state boys’ championship at Mater Dei High in 1983.
Scorciolla owns a BA in health and physical education from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) (1983) and a master’s in exercise technology from the University of South Alabama (1988). He was a member of Glassboro’s 1981 Division III national championship team. Prior to college, he was a corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
Last updated 1/14/15.
