Gino J. Olivieri
Head Women's Softball Coach

Alfred University Contact Info

Office Location: McLane Center
Department: Athletic Department
Phone: 607.871.3018
Email:

Education

B.S. : Criminal Justice, Minor Political Science
University of Delaware, 1981



Background

Biography
Gino Olivieri was appointed softball coach at Alfred University prior to the 2005-06 academic year.

In his first season at AU, Olivieri led the Lady Saxons to a fourth-place finish in the Empire 8 Conference standings and the team's first-ever berth in the conference championship tournament. In 2007, he guided AU to a school single-season record 23 victories.

Olivieri is well known in softball circles around Western New York, having served the last 11 years as head coach of the Rochester Lady Lions, an elite 18-and-under travel team that competes in American Softball Association, National Softball Association and PONY tournaments throughout the country.

His teams placed 20th and fifth, respectively, among more than 125 teams competing at PONY national championship tournaments in 2005 and 2004.

Olivieri comes to AU from SUNY Brockport, where he served as assistant softball coach during the 2004-05 season. He also served as an assistant high school softball coach at the Aquinas Institute near Rochester from 1999-2002.

He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice with a minor in political science in 1981 from the University of Delaware, where he was a three-year starting tailback for the football team, helping the Blue Hens to an NCAA Division I-AA national championship in 1979. He was a member of the Detroit Lions for two seasons (1981 and 1982) before retiring in 1982 due to a shoulder injury.

Olivieri served 20 years in the Monroe County Sheriff's Department as a canine handler, retiring in 2002. He and his wife, Janet, live in Conesus, NY, and have three children: Frank, Gina, and Michelle. His daughters both play Division I collegiate softball – Gina at Maryland-Baltimore County and Michelle at Binghamton.