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Kim Lusk
Kim Lusk
Title: Women's Basketball Head Coach
Phone: 845-398-4026
Email: klusk@stac.edu
Previous College: Southern Connecticut '99

Kim Lusk completed her 12th year at the helm of the Women's Basketball Program.  She has guided the Spartans to back to back NCAA tournament appearances during the 2018 and 2019 post seasons. The Spartans have compiled a 74-17 record over the course of the past three seasons which included two Regular Season Championships in 2020 and 2019 and an ECC Championship in 2018.  

During Coach Lusk's tenure, the Spartans have made the ECC post season for 11 out of 12 years including 7 trips to the semi-finals and 2 to the finals; winning the championship against NYIT in 2018.  

In 2016-2017, the Spartans finished tied for 2nd place in the highly competitive ECC and advanced to the ECC semi-finals.  The Lady Spartans posted a 19-11 record, including Lusk's 200th career coaching win.  

In 2015-2016, the Spartans finished 18-11 advancing to the post season for the 8th time in Lusk's time at STAC.  The Spartans lost a heart breaking, 69-68 game to ECC Tournment host UDC in the quarter-finals. 

Lusk's guided STAC to its first Regular Season Championship in 2010-11 finishing with a 22-8 record. 

Coach Lusk was named the Met Writer's Division II Coach of the Year in 2019, 2018 and 2011, the BCANY Women's Division II Coach of the Year in 2018 and the East Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 2020, 2019 and 2011.  

Prior to STAC, Lusk served as Senior Women's Administrator and Head Women's Basketball Coach at New Jersey Institute of Technology.  During her first four years as the head coach, the program was a Division II member of the Central Atlantic Conference.  In those years, Lusk produced 63 wins, making her the programs winningest coach.  Lusk's third season (2004 - 05) saw the Highlanders post a program-best 18 wins and earn NJIT women's basketball its first postseason berth beyond its own conference tournament (2005 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division II Championship Tournament).  

In her final season at the helm of the program (2006-07), NJIT began the process of reclassifying to NCAA Division I, where they Highlanders finished 4-24 as an independent member. Lusk piloted NJIT to its first Division I win in the third game of the season, a 91-70 victory over Norfolk State.  Following the 2006-2007 season, Lusk took one year off to spend time with her young family.

In her first season at NJIT (2002-2003), Lusk, who was named "interim" head coach, was 24 years old and was noted as one of the youngest Division II coaches in the country.  She guided NJIT to a 16-12 record, tying the existing school record for victories in a season, and advanced the team to the conference tournament semi-finals.  The "interim" tag was removed from her coaching title in April 2003 and she was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics at the same time.

Before being named Head Coach at NJIT, Lusk spent one year as the top assistant for the Highlanders, in which she helped turn around a program that had only won four games the previous season.  Prior to NJIT, Lusk spent two years as a graduate assistant at the University of New Haven where she completed her MBA with a concentration in Sports Management. 

Lusk was a four-year point guard and two-year captain at Southern Connecticut State University, graduating in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in psychology.  She broke the Owls school record for assists in a game(15) as a junior, and was named to the New England All-Conference team her junior and senior year.   

Lusk resides in New City, NY with her husband, Jim, and their four children; Madison (15), Kallie (14), Jackson (8) and Justin (4).