PETER GAGLIOTI ­ Head Coach (Second Season) ­ As veteran soccer coach Peter Gaglioti begins his second year at the helm, he prepares for competition with an increase in assets. In 2000 Gaglioti led a team of first-year varsity athletes onto the soccer field in the program's inaugural season. In 2001 a large recruiting class will allow his core of returnees--all with starting experience--the capability to flourish under Gaglioti's system.

After conducting a nationwide search to identify an exceptional, capable candidate to build a quality Division I women's soccer program, FDU named Peter Gaglioti as the team's first head coach in September 1999. Gaglioti returns to FDU six years after being an assistant men's soccer coach on the Knights' 1993 Northeast Conference Championship team. Coach Gaglioti gives FDU's women's soccer program credibility and a solid foundation with his experience as a successful coach and recruiter.

His coaching experience ranges from the club level to the professional ranks. In each of his coaching stops in New Jersey, Michigan and even Canada, he has been a vital part of winning teams. After three state tournament appearances and back-to-back Bergen County titles with Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, N.J.), Coach Gaglioti ventured into the collegiate ranks as an assistant coach at Rutgers University at Newark. While with the Scarlet Raiders, Coach Gaglioti helped lead them to a 1989 ECAC Tournament berth. He was rewarded for his efforts in 1991 by being named the Scarlet Raiders Head Coach, a position which he served for two seasons.

In 1991 Coach Gaglioti led the Suburban Soccer Club of Flanders, N.J. to the Under 16 New Jersey State Cup title and to the finals at the U.S.Y.S.A. Region I Championship, Dallas Cup and Tampa Sun Bowl. A former member of the U.S.Y.S. Region II Olympic Development Program staff, as well as the ODP staff in New Jersey and Michigan. Coach Gaglioti has coached numerous Youth National and National team members, Collegiate National Championship team members and All-Americans.

The next step for Coach Gaglioti was the professional ranks and his opportunity came north of the border in the Canadian National Soccer League. As General Manager and Head Coach of the Windsor Wheels, Gaglioti guided his team into the finals of the CNSL Cup. Following his stint in Canada, Gaglioti came to Teaneck and was an assistant for FDU's head coach Tom Lang. After a successful season with the Knights, it was off to Michigan where he had been the Director of Coaching for the Ann Arbor Youth Soccer Association since 1994.

Coach Gaglioti continued his success with club teams, finishing in the semifinals of the 1998 Michigan Youth State Cup, winning the 1998 Capital Cup Championship and a two-time winner of the Michigan Premier League 1st Division (1998, 1999). He holds a prestigious U.S. Soccer Federation "A" License and Youth License. Gaglioti fills a dual role in his return to FDU as the Assistant Director of Academic and Student Athlete Support Services and head women's soccer coach. His responsibilities as the Assistant Director of Academic and Student-Athlete Support Services include the academic advisement, monitoring the progress of student-athletes in the classroom and designing programs to enhance student-athlete welfare issues.

PHIL CASELLA - Assistant Coach - Casella, a 1997 FDU graduate, returns to the FDU campus following an exciting professional career. He played two seasons (1996-1997) for the New Jersey Imperials of the USISL. The Imperials were the 1996 Northeast Division champs and USISL Championship semifinalists.

A forward for the Knights from 1993-95, he led the team to two Northeast Conference Tournament appearances. In 1995 he led the team with 14 goals and still holds the eighth best single-season point total of 33 in 1995. He holds a USSF National "C" Coaching Liense. A staff coach with the Eastern New York Olympic Developmental Program.

Casella resides in his native Bayside, Queens, and is currently earning his master's degree in physical education from Adelphi University.

ETHAN ZOHN - Men's & Women's Assistant Coach Zohn is in his fourth season with the Fairleigh Dickinson University men's soccer staff and second with the Knights' women's soccer staff.  Zohn works with both team's goalkeepers.  In 2000 he helped lead the men's squad to the NEC regular season and tournament titles as well as an NCAA play-in appearance. He is a 1996 graduate of Vassar College with a bachelor of arts degree in biology.  Zohn has also played professional soccer as a goalkeeper for the Highlanders Football Club in Zimbabwe, the Cape Cod Crusaders and the Hawaii Tsunami.  In 1997 and 2001, he was a member of the U.S. National Maccabiah Team. When Zohn isn’t on the bench for the Knights or in net for a professional team, Zohn is an aspiring inventor who has done freelance work since 1999 as a brand name strategist/developer, responsible for creating names for newly invented products.  The Lexington, Massachusetts native currently resides in New York City.

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