Rocco Constantino is in his tenth year at the helm of the Bloomfield College softball program, and looks to continue to build on the success he has during his first nine years as head coach.
During Constantino's nine years leading Bloomfield, the program has averaged 23 wins a season after averaging just nine wins per season prior to 2007 in the Division II era. Constantino has now accumulated 209 wins in his nine seasons as Bloomfield's head coach. With a win over Mercy on April 1, 2015, Constantino became just the third CACC coach to reach 200 wins in the Division II era.
In 2015, Constantino led Bloomfield to a 25-21-1 record and the semi-final round of the CACC Tournament. Bloomfield is one of only three CACC softball teams to have finished .500 or better in each of the past five years.
In 2012, Constantino led to the Deacons to their first CACC Tournament Championship Round appearance. The Deacons scored their second straight upset of a top team in the CACC Tournament's opening game and advanced to the winner's bracket final for the first time as a Division II school. The team finished the season with a record fo 32-22. The 32 wins in in 2012 was one short of a school record.
BC's best season under Constantino came in 2009 when the Lady Deacons finished with a 33-15 overall record, setting the mark for wins in a single season during the Division II era. The club finished third in the CACC regular season standings and placed third in the CACC Tournament, winning three postseason games. The Lady Deacons' banner season earned Constantino CACC and ECAC Coach of the Year honors for the first time in his career.
During his tenure at Bloomfield, Constantino has coached players who have made All-CACC teams 24 times, and coached eight All-East Region players. He has also coached two CACC Rookies of the Year and one CACC Player of the Year. Constantino served as the NCAA Representative at the 2010 NCAA East Regional Tournament and served on the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee from 2008-2010. Serving many roles at Bloomfield, Constantino is also an Assistant Director of Athletics, runs the school's division of the Student Athlete Advisory Commity (SAAC) and is the CACC representative for SAAC.
A coach at the high school level for 10 years prior to taking over the program at Bloomfield, Constantino served as an assistant under John Galante at North Arlington High School and Carl Corino at Belleville High School, two of the most repected coaches in New Jersey high school softball history.
After coaching Belleville Industrial Hardware and Lions Club to successful seasons in Belleville's Intermediate League, Constantino caught on as an assistant under Corino, and remained on his staff from 1996 to 2001. A coach on the North Jersey Group 4 championship team in 2001, Constantino left Belleville to take a teaching position at North Arlington high school, where he became Galante's assistant and ultimately the school's Head Softball Coach. Constantino remained in his role as an English teacher for seven years before taking his current position at Bloomfield.
A graduate of Belleville High School, Constantino graduated from New Jersey City University and graduated with a degree in English with a concentration in Writing in 1998. His undergraduate degree completed, he then traveled to Kean University, where he completed his teaching certification and accumulated 30 graduate credits. He earned his Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from Montclair State University in 2014.
Born in Belleville, New Jersey, Constantino currently resides in Bloomfield with his wife Jacklyn.
