jbrustad@monroecollege.edu

Now in his seventh year, Coach Brustad has established himself as one of the most successful coaches in the NY Metro Area.  Coach Brustad has an incredible .795 winning percentage at Monroe.  In 2005-06, Monroe won more games than any Mustang men's team had ever won before.  They were 33-5, won their second District III title, fourth Region XV championship, and made their second appearance in the NJCAA Division I National Tournament.  Monroe made its first National Tournament appearance under Coach Brustad in 2002-03 after posting a stellar 31-3 record.  

The formula for Brustad's success has become clear.  Recruit skilled, athletic players, plug them into a system that lets them maximize their talents within a team framework, and motivate them to outwork opponents on both ends of the floor.   As a result, the Mustangs win and provide wondrous entertainment for Mustangs fans.

Prior to being named head coach, Coach Brustad was a Monroe assistant for seven years.  He also coached in other colleges and at the high school level.  In 1992 he was an assistant at Cazenovia College and the next two seasons he assisted at Sullivan County Community College, where he coached in two NJCAA National Championship Finals, winning it all in 1994.

A 1990 graduate of the State University of Oneonta, Coach Brustad received a Bachelor's Degree in Education and Mathematics.  In June of 2000, he earned his MS degree in Recreation Education from Lehman College

Now in his second season with the Mustangs, it's clear that Coach Erickson knows basketball.  From the time he was the captain of the Winchendon Prep School team that won the school's first ever NEPSAC Class A championship, he's been a player or coach on winning teams.

Erickson played two years for current Boston College coach Al Skinner on the University of Rhode Island team that boasted of current LA Clipper star Cuttino Mobley.

He was an assistant coach at CCNY from 2002-2004.  The 2003 CCNY team won more games than any in the school's history since 1950, along the way winning the CUNYAC championship and advancing to the NCAA tournament.  From 2004-2006 he was the assistant at the College of Eastern Utah team that won more games than the school had in ten years.  There were seven all-conference players and one All-American on those Eastern Utah teams.

Erickson received his Bachelor's degree in Business Communications from Assumption College.

Now in his sixth season as a Monroe assistant, it's clear that winning basketball teams seem to follow Allen Jenkins around.  He was the starting point guard on one of the greatest teams in Monroe college history, the legendary 1997-98 Mustangs that went 31-3 and played in the NJCAA finals.

In his junior year, Coach Jenkins led the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown to its best-ever record and highest-ever national ranking.  Always fundamentally sound, that year he finished seventh in Division II in steals.  As a college senior he led Alderson-Broaddus to its first-ever conference tournament finals.

Prior to coaching at Monroe he was an assistant coach at Alderson-Broaddus. 

Coach Jenkins graduated from Peekskill HS, and received an AAS degree from Monroe in Business and a BS degree from Alderson-Broaddus in Marketing.  In addition to his coaching duties, he's a counselor in the Monroe College Bursar's office.

Dana Warner knows a lot about what it takes to play big in big games.  A star player for Monroe from 1998-2000, Coach Warner improved as a player in each of his collegiate seasons.  As a sophomore he averaged a solid 13.7 ppg for the Mustangs' first-ever Division I team that went 22-10 and won a Region Championship.

He concluded his playing days on high notes, to say the least, as a First-team CUNY All-star averaging 18ppg and 6 apg for a CCNY team that won the CUNY Championship.  He was the MVP of the CUNY tournament, a Met Basketball Writers First-team All-star, and a Third-team All-Atlantic Region selection.



He then coached at CCNY for a year and eventually continued his playing career overseas.  But he's now back home to Monroe, where it all started, to share his basketball knowledge and big-game experience.