A-Game Sports Staff

Jose Alberro was born and raised in Puerto Rico. As the son of a former major leaguer, Jose was introduced to baseball at an early age and spent most of his youth travelling with his dad, playing baseball in different parts of the world.

Jose started his college career at Monroe College where he was a pitcher, third baseman, catcher and outfielder before transferring to Nyack College.

Immediately after graduation, Jose became a volunteer coach for the Nyack baseball team, where he worked with the catchers and outfielders, before beginning his work with the Nyack softball program as an assistant coach, helping develop infielders and outfielders. Jose now works as the pitching coach for Caldwell University in New Jersey and has spent the last two years working with youth programs and travel teams in Rockland and Orange County as a private instructor.

Samantha Alonzo has many years of softball experience under her belt. She played high school ball for Ketcham High School; earning All-League, All-Section, All-State, and MVP accolades. Alonzo played her travel ball career with the Dutchess Debs, and continues to play with them today. In her senior year Alonzo signed to Goldey-Beacom College. There she earned the starting SS position as a freshman, earning numerous Rookie of the Week awards, and Rookie of the Year. In her sophomore year she broke her school’s and conference records for triples; also earning player of the week awards and MVP at the end of the season. Alonzo transferred to SUNY Purchase for her junior and senior year, changing her position to pitcher. She earned her 100th hit, and 100th strike out, player and pitcher of the week honors, as well as MVP at the end of her senior year.

Alonzo loves the game so much she began coaching softball after she graduated. Alonzo coached one year as the varsity head coach for Keio Academy. Now she is the head varsity coach for Holy Child. Alonzo does pitching and hitting lessons here at A Game, as well as coaches some Little Athletes classes. When Alonzo is not coaching and or playing softball she is a Pre-Kindergarten teacher.

Vaughn Anderson played high school basketball at Iona Prep, and then went on to play two years at Buffalo State College. From Buffalo State, he transferred to Manhattan College on an academic scholarship and graduated with Honors in the field of Exercise Science. Vaughn is well known in NY state as one of the top basketball trainers on the youth elite AAU circuit. Vaughn has coached at New Rochelle High School, Iona Grammar, Mount Vernon Jr. Knights, and Mamaroneck Middle School.

Madison Carlo was a 4 year varsity softball starter at Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers where she caught, pitched and played infield. She started coaching right out of high school for the Yonkers Federation as a 10U coach for Bryn Mawr. In 2016, Madison co-founded the Yonkers Blaze Sports Association, which has both travel and tournament softball teams and AAU basketball. Prior to coming to A-Game, Madison was a 12U and 14U coach at Proswing of Port Chester. In 2019, she started coaching for Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale as their head JV coach.

Dominic Darcangelo (Director of Lacrosse Operations) started his lacrosse career at C.W. Baker High School, Baldwinsville, in Upstate New York, where he participated in three years of varsity lacrosse and was the 2010 Men’s Varsity Lacrosse Captain his senior year. An offensive midfielder and face-off specialist, Dominic was selected for the Section III All-Star North-South Game, where he dominated at the face-off X. He continued his lacrosse career for the Red Dragons at the State University of New York at Cortland. In 2011, Dominic and the Red Dragons traveled to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough to compete for the NCAA Division 3 National Championship.

He continued his love for lacrosse after college, coaching for the Upstate Lacrosse Association, United CNY, a highly scouted travel organization, as well as assisting the Baldwinsville Men’s Lacrosse program in the off-season. Dominic continued his passion in sharing his love for lacrosse by founding Lax Hour, a lacrosse instruction and developmental program for athletes looking to improve in dodging, speed, shooting, face-offs, and lacrosse knowledge. Darcangelo recently worked for Cascade/Maverik in Upstate New York.

Edwin Delgado is from Yonkers, NY and attended Saunders High School. He played for 2 years at Monroe College with a career batting average of .457. He also attended and played for Cleary University in Michigan.

Edwin actively attends MLB showcases and tryouts and is currently a Strength and Conditioning Intern at Iona College.
He is a firm believer in teaching the significance of working smarter on a consistent basis to young athletes.

Lule Dyasi has been coaching and training athletes for over 20 years. He played soccer at a championship level for many teams with accomplishments that include being a Hyundai nation cup finalist, a Budweiser Cup champion and a Los Albos (Honduras) champion in the NESSL. Lule’s love for playing the game is reflected in how he trains and coaches his students.  He instructs players at all different levels of soccer, from recreational to professional. Lule holds a USSF national license to coach and truly loves working with anyone that is willing to better themselves on and off the field.

Ben Gashi is an experienced lacrosse coach and former collegiate lacrosse athlete at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Ben was a starting goalie for 3 seasons where he served as team captain for his junior & senior season. Ben is heavily involved in the lacrosse community where he currently is the head coach at Mount Saint Michael Academy & coaches annual camps across NYC & at the local Iona College campus. He is the recent founder of the Albanian National Lacrosse team. Bens experience as a player and coach helps players reach their full potential in regards to shooting, defense, goalie work & overall IQ of the game.

Marisa Gaynor graduated from Iona College in May 2014 where she played Division-1 water polo for the Gaels and earned her bachelor’s degree. Following graduation, she played professional water polo in France and has since earned her MBA from Wagner College, graduating in May 2018, while also serving as an Assistant Strength Coach for the Wagner Seahawks.

Marisa is currently an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Iona College. She develops and implements training programs for several of the Gaels Division 1 teams, including: softball, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s water polo, men’s swimming, men’s basketball, and crew teams. In addition to working with D-1 collegiate athletes, Marisa has led small group swim and dryland sessions, as well as, private water polo, swimming, and personal training lessons.

Her goals when working with athletes of any age are to encourage confidence and understanding in a weight room/training environment, to assist young athletes in developing and working towards personal/sport specific goals, to inspire a positive attitude and training atmosphere, and to promote responsibility, respect, and integrity.

Mike Green has been the Varsity Assistant/Modified Lacrosse Coach at Pelham Memorial High school since 2013 and Varsity Assistant Cross Country Coach since 2017.

In 2018, he was part of the coaching staff for the Pelham Varsity Lacrosse team who won the NY Class C Section 1 Title in a dramatic overtime win over Rye. In the following game, the team won the NYS Regional Championship against Glens Falls which led to his team finishing 3rd in New York State. During his 7 years of coaching, he has developed players that have gone on to play Division 1 and Division 3 lacrosse across the country including Notre Dame, Boston University and Georgetown. Throughout his career, his players have found success on the field as well as in the classroom with dozens of Academic All-Americans. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and earned his Masters Degree in Education from Pace University.

Mike has been a full time Special Education Teacher at Pelham Memorial High School since 2013.

Jordan Gurganus was announced as the new Monroe College Mustangs softball assistant coach in September 2018, and has been actively coaching and teaching the sport to young women ages 8–18 for five years. Before coming to Monroe, she was the assistant coach for both North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, PA and the Team Pennsylvania U18 gold travel team. She also worked at Bianco School of Baseball, where she gave individual private hitting and fielding lessons.

Prior to her coaching career, Gurganus had a successful athletic career in high school and college. She was a four-year starter at Hickory High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, earning accolades such as the player of the year, along with all-district, all-region, and all-state honors as a shortstop.

Gurganus went on to play as a four-year starter on the NCAA division 1 Robert Morris University softball team as a utility player. Gurganus was selected as a three-time all NEC conference award winner. She also received the NEC Batting Title award in 2015. Her all-time career batting average of .350 was ranked the second in Robert Morris University history. Gurganus’ other records include RMU’s all-time career hits record (250), single-season hit record (76), and all-time at-bats records (702).

Gurganus graduated in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Robert Morris University. She is a native of Chesapeake, VA and currently resides in Mamaroneck, NY.

Rob Lalli is a Westchester native who started his career playing football and lacrosse at Eastchester High school. He played varsity lacrosse for 5 years and became team captain in his junior year. He led the team in points his junior and senior season, earning accolades as all-League and all section for section 1. As a football player, Rob started both his junior and senior year at running back and cornerback, earning an all-league title senior year. After choosing a collegiate career in lacrosse, Rob attended Mount Saint Vincent college where he led the team his Freshmen year in goals. He then transferred to play division 2 at Pace University. Rob took his playing skills to the coaching where he is now the head coach for the Eastchester modified lacrosse team. Rob has helped build the Eastchester program by working with players on skill development in the key areas of the game. Rob’s love for football has also stayed with him and has helped kids become better at the sport as a volunteer coach in the recreational football league he grew up playing in.

Yolanda Nyero was an assistant field hockey coach at Mercy College and is currently the Head Varsity Field Hockey Goalie Coach of The Masters School of New York team since 2014.

Nyero was a member of the Mercy College field hockey team during the 2011, 2012, and 2013 seasons. During the 2013 season, Nyero saw action in 17 games, starting 12 and led the team with 16 points, four assists and a .794 shot-on-goal percentage. She tied for the team lead with six goals.

Prior to attending Mercy College, Nyero was a soccer goalie for 12 years, attending numerous training camps dedicated to individual improvement of goalkeeping. Nyero was the Carlisle High School Varsity Soccer Goalie, earning All-Conference honors in 2010 and 2011.

Nyero currently resides in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

James Poggiogalle (Director of Little Athletes Academy) has been playing sports since high school, where he was on the varsity baseball team and bowled competitively. He still bowls competitively in two leagues. Following high school, James went on to study at the University of Tampa, where he graduated with a degree in Sports Management. Since then, he has been dedicated to engaging with children in sports.

Following college, James has been the director of summer day camps and after-school programs for children of all ages. Most recently, he spent six years as a head coach at a youth sports program, where he taught soccer and basketball to toddlers, and led programs and camps for 2-6 year olds. James also has experience in Physical Therapy, working as a PT Aide for four years helping patients of all ages. James is passionate about sports and the positive impact it has on young children, and strives to make sports fun and accessible for children of all ages and abilities.

Felix Restituyo is a Washington Heights native who attended George Washington High School in Manhattan. Following high school, Felix played his freshmen year at SUNY Canton before making his way to play in The Dominican Republic for a year. During this time, Felix played with the Winter League Colorado Rockies, where he was endorsed by Wilin Rosario (Colorado Rockies) and instructed by Luis Coronado (Oakland Athletics).

After returning back to The United States, Felix used his knowledge of the game to become a private baseball instructor at The Baseball Center in New York before deciding to continue the pursuit of his childhood dream by playing his sophomore year for the Monroe Mustangs in New Rochelle, where he contributed to the team with the most wins in school history and also their second NJCAA Division 1 Regional Championship (2016).

Aside from baseball, Felix is President and Co-Founder of HundredTenPercent Sports and Apparel™, where he focuses on not only helping individuals become better student-athletes, but also better human-beings.

Jose Reyes (Director of Baseball Instruction), a Westchester native who attended Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, led the Indians to two conference championships.  In addition to being named team MVP, Outstanding Defensive Player, All Section One Honorable Mention (twice) and the league leader in stolen bases during his high school years, Jose had the opportunity to represent the Hudson Valley in the Empire State Games and the College Select club team.

He went on to play at the college level with Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut as a shortstop, second baseman and center fielder. In his senior year, he was elected team captain.  After graduating, he went on to play professionally in the Cam-Am League – first with the New York Federals in 2011 and then with the Rockland Boulders in 2012.

Jose has successfully taken that playing experience into his current area of expertise, baseball instruction.  He has trained aspiring athletes since 2007, helping them to improve both physically and mentally as players and individuals.  While Jose loves seeing kids play and excel in baseball,  his biggest sense of pride comes from teaching children how important it is to have an education.

Vincent Ricasio is from New York City. He was an all star goaltender at the South Kent School (South Kent, CT). He was a co-founder and player of the Brooklyn Men’s Lacrosse Club, as well as a member of the Philippines national lacrosse team. He is currently the Head Coach of Boys Varsity Lacrosse at the Keio Academy of NY. Previous coaching duties include Poly Prep, Collegiate School, and St. David’s School, along with Doc’s Youth Lacrosse and the Brooklyn Admirals. Vincent is an administrator of Boulder Brook Men’s Lacrosse Network, Board Member and Coach of Pelham Youth Lacrosse in Westchester County.

Raul Rodriguez is a native of Panama, but raised in The Bronx. He has spent his entire life on the baseball field – starting from his early years in youth leagues through high school and into higher level leagues in the Dominican Republic and Panama.

Raul possesses a strong passion for baseball and it gives him great satisfaction to share his skills with others, especially kids, who area always receptive. Raul has over 15 years of experience as a baseball coach and trainer, coaching in the Crotona Summer Little League in the Bronx, the Kensico Little League in Westchester and working as a private baseball trainer around the NYC area.

Teresa Rozycki is a native of Harrison, NY where she was a two-sport varsity athlete—playing both field hockey and softball, her true passion. She dedicated many summers to playing competitive softball.

Teresa graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University with an undergrad degree in Health and Physical Education, and recently graduated from Long Island University with her masters in Early Childhood and Childhood Education.

She has been coaching for five years and currently coaches the 16U Gold softball team at A-Game. She has also coached at the Rye Country Day School as the JV Head softball coach and has previously held the position as the Varsity Assistant softball coach at Greenwich Academy.

Currently, she is an elementary school teacher in the Bronx.

Samantha Santillo was announced the new Monroe College Mustangs’ head softball coach in September 2018. Santillo most recently served as head softball coach at North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, PA. Since finishing her collegiate softball career at Robert Morris University in 2015 she has offered private catching instruction to softball players aged 8 through 18.

After college, Santillo was a three-time Golden Glove award winner as the Northeast Conference (NEC) Defensive Player of the Year. Santillo was the NEC All-Conference First-Team catcher in 2012, and a two-time NEC Player of the Week. She set three defensive records during her career at Robert Morris, and received a bachelor of science in business administration/sports management in 2015.

Santillo is a native of Ellwood City, PA, and currently resides in Mamaroneck, NY.

Margaret Scarcella is the mom of three girls, an occupational therapist and has been coaching softball to girls ages 8 – 18 for the past 15 years. She is a graduate of NYU, where she played basketball.

Margaret is currently the girls varsity basketball and softball coach at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, her alma mater. Her teams have been very successful in making the playoffs the last six out of seven seasons.

Margaret is enthusiastic and has a passion for the game which carries over to the teams she coaches. She believes in emphasizing the basics and the technical understanding of the game. She has run pitching clinics for girls ages 8 – 15 as well as various hitting and fielding clinics for all ages.

Margaret is from Yonkers, NY and currently resides in Greenwich, CT.

Alex Tejera attended Fordham University on a baseball scholarship where he was a four year letter winner, the starting SS for three seasons, and Captain as a Senior. They won their league all four years, making the NCAA Regionals twice. Alex was part of the double play combination that led the nation in double plays in the 1990–1991 season.

After Fordham, Alex played minor league baseball in the Dominican Republic (Winter Ball) and for the Northern League Sioux Falls Canaries in 1994. He played both SS and Pitcher.

Alex has since been the Assistant Baseball Coach at Woodlands High School (2000–2002), Head Baseball Coach of The Masters School (2002–2004), and Head Softball Coach at Rye High School (2004–present).

Mike Vecchione became the director of basketball at A-Game Sports in April 2019. In his current role, Mike is responsible for the oversight of all daily activities for basketball, including camps, training and travel teams.

Mike is currently the varsity boys basketball head coach at Rye Neck high school. He previously worked as boy’s varsity head coach at Gorton high school in Yonkers, NY and JV head basketball coach at Blind Brook high school in Rye, NY. Mike was the co-director of Sts. Peter and Paul CYO basketball program for 17 years and is currently coaching at Immaculate Conception in Tuckahoe, NY. Mike also has 10 years’ experience as a varsity head coach for baseball in Blessed Sacrament in New Rochelle, NY and Gorton high school in Yonkers, NY.

Mike is a full-time science teacher at Mount Saint Michael Academy in Bronx.

Aaron “The Problem” Williams played basketball at New Rochelle High School and average 18 points per game.  Afterwards, he walked on at SUNY Delhi and was named NJCAA “Player of the Year”. The award helped him get a scholarship to Delaware State University where he helped get his team to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history by hitting the game-winning shot in the conference finals. He has since gone on to a pro career that extends from the ABA here in the states, to FIBA and other professional leagues around the world, including Canada, The Dominican Republic, Russia and New Zealand.  In addition to still playing the game, Aaron provides basketball instruction to kids throughout Westchester County, teaching them to turn their “problems” into strengths.