Bio

Rocco Constantino began his tenure as the Director of Athletics at Middlesex College in August of 2021. He came to Middlesex after previously working at Santa Barbara City College where he was Director of Athletics from 2017-2021. 

Prior to that, Rocco worked at Bloomfield College, an NCAA Division II school in Essex County, as the Assistant Director of Athletics and Head Softball Coach for nine years. 

In Constantino's first year at Middlesex College, the four Colts teams qualified for the NJCAA Region XIX playoffs, including the softball team which earned a berth in the NJCAA D3 College World Series as region champion. In addition, the Colts had one individual National Champion in Track & Field. He also oversaw the establishment of the Men's Volleyball program, which was the first two-year program to compete in the state of New Jersey in 2022. 

While Constantino was at Santa Barbara, the Vaqueros won 16 Western State Conference titles and the Women's Water Polo team won a state championship in 2017. In the four years Constantino led the SBCC Athletics Department, 11 Vaquero teams were named CCCAA Scholar Team Award winners, the highest academic honor a team could receive. The 11 teams marked the highest total for any of the 110 two-year colleges who are members of the CCCAA.

While at SBCC, Constantino served on the Board of Directors for the Santa Barbara Athletics Roundtable and was the President of the Southern California Football Association American Pacific Division. He established the SBCC Vaqueros Hall of Fame in 2018 and inducted the organization’s first three classes. Constantino oversaw 21 sports, including Women’s Beach Volleyball and Men’s Diving, two sports he established during his tenure there. He was a finalist for the college’s Administrator of the Year in 2020 and 2021.  

During Constantino's nine years as the Head Softball Coach at Bloomfield, the program averaged 23 wins a season after averaging just nine wins per season prior to 2007 in the Division II era. Constantino 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 Central Athletic Collegiate Conference (CACC) coach to reach 200 wins in the Division II era. Constantino was the 2009 ECAC and CACC Coach of the Year.

Constantino served as the Director of Athletics at New Providence High, a Blue Ribbon School District, in New Jersey from 2015-2017. During his two years at New Providence, the athletics teams won nine sectional championships and two overall New Jersey Group 2 State Championships. Thirty-three student-athletes moved on to play college athletics, including seven on the NCAA Division I level. He also served on the Mid-State 38 Football Executive Committee from 2015-17.

A graduate of Belleville High, Constantino graduated from New Jersey City University and graduated with a degree in English/Journalism with a concentration in Writing in 1998. He then attended Kean University where he completed his teaching certification and accumulated 30 graduate credits. He earned his Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Montclair State University in 2014.

A baseball and football enthusiast and sportswriter, Constantino also worked as a Feature Columnist, covering the New York Jets for Bleacher Report and is the co-founder and lead baseball writer for the baseball history website BallNine.com. He published his first book, 50 Moments that Defined Major League Baseball, through Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2016 and his second book, Beyond Baseball’s Color Barrier in 2021.