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The Saint Joseph's College Athletics Department is proud to offer the Monks Leadership Academy to select student-athletes. The Leadership Academy, coordinated and led by head men's lacrosse coach Bill Cosentino, aspires to instill leadership skills and further develop life skills in SJC student-athletes. The Academy seeks to challenge and guide these current and future leaders to recognize, analyze and then develop their own leadership traits.
The Academy will create specific programming, set in periodic classroom sessions throughout each semester, that includes: lectures, brainstorming, guest speakers and break-out exercises. There will be particular attention paid to -- Personal Responsibility, Accountability, Peer-to-peer relationships, Communication and Commitment. Amongst the goals for the Academy is to have student-athletes leave Saint Joseph's College as competent, caring, and inspiring leaders who can create a "winning" culture wherever they go.
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Monks Leadership Academy Principles:
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FRESHMAN YEAR | |
EMERGING LEADERS | |
ENGAGING LEADERS |
CURRICULUM:
Freshman Year - Essentials of Leadership |
Emerging Leaders |
Engaging Leaders |
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LEADERSHIP ACADEMY LEADERS:
Phone: | 207/893-7659 |
Email: | wcosentino@sjcme.edu |
Cosentino serves as the Monks' men's lacrosse head coach, Academic Success Coordinator, and Director of the Monks' Leadership Academy, a program implemented in the spring of 2019 designed to assist in the development of leadership skills. The Leadership Academy aspires to instill leadership skills in SJC student-athletes by challenging and guiding them to analyze and then develop their own leadership traits. During the Fall semester he teaches an elective course, Principles of Coaching.
A dynamic leader, Cosentino began working as a Leadership Coach at Velocity Performance in Nashua in 2014 and has delivered Leadership and Professional Training to students at numerous higher education institutions, including Dartmouth College, Brown University, RPI, WPI, Trinity College and Bryant University.
Cosentino landed at Saint Joseph's after spending two (2014-15) seasons as the head coach at Daniel Webster College, where he guided the Eagles to a pair of New England Collegiate Conference Tournament appearances. The 2015 NECC Coach of the Year recipient led Daniel Webster to seven victories - tied for most in program history at the time - and boasted the largest men's lacrosse roster in team history during the 2016 campaign.
Prior to his stint at Daniel Webster, Cosentino served as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator at Keene State College. In two and a half years in Keene, he helped lead the Owls to a 24-10 overall record with a Little East Conference Championship – and subsequent NCAA Tournament berth – in 2014.
Previously, Cosentino served as the head coach of the boy’s lacrosse program at Merrimack High School and guided the program to its first winning season (10-6) in nearly 10 years. He also worked as a varsity assistant at Concord High School for four years and helped the team make a pair of NHIAA Final Four appearances.
Cosentino was also the founder of New England Elite Lacrosse, a Nashua, NH based club program that originated in 2010. In January of 2016, NE Elite merged with 4 Leaf Lacrosse New England. Coach Cosentino served as High School Program Director and coach during his time with 4 Leaf. In 2018 Coach Cosentino joined the 207Lacrosse program out of Portland, ME, but in August 2019 he went back to 4 Leaf Lacrosse as they merged with another program here in Maine.
Cosentino was a four-year starting defender for Plymouth State and went on to play two years for the Bay State Lacrosse Club, a member of the American Lacrosse League, before organizing the Warpigs Lacrosse Club in 2007.
Coach Cosentino graduated Cum Laude from Plymouth State University in 2005 with a Bachelor's Degree in Childhood Studies and earned his Master's in Teaching/Social Studies from Rivier University in 2011. In December of 2021 he earned his Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Leadership. He taught at either the elementary or middle school levels for over 10 years before accepting the head coaching position at Daniel Webster.
Phone: | 207/893-7901 |
Email: | cwoodside@sjcme.edu |
Christopher Woodside comes to the Monk Leadership Academy with a diverse background in sports leadership and coaching. Chris started his basketball coaching career, at 18 years old, like so many other coaches as a volunteer coaching recreation, travel and AAU basketball during his college years. Once he graduated with his Master’s from UConn he then jumped into working at the high school level.
Chris’s first high school job was as the Head JV Coach and Assistant Varsity Coach for the Boys teams at Calais High School in 2013. In 2014, Chris took over the role of Head Coach for the Calais Varsity Boys. During the following season the team was able to successfully win their conference championship and continue to become Class C State Champions. Overall, Chris’s record in his two years as head coach with Calais was 28-14.
Chris then pursued an opportunity at Schreiner University where he served as the Men's Basketball Head JV Coach and Assistant Men's Basketball Coach. During this time the Schreiner University Men's Basketball team went from finishing last place the season before to finishing first in the conference and won their first ever Conference Championship. Chris oversaw the recruiting efforts, game planning, scheduling, video breakdowns, and all other management aspects of the JV program. While at Schreiner Chris also served as the Leadership Coach for the Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, and Baseball teams.
Upon returning to Maine in 2017, Chris became the John Bapst High School Girls Varsity Basketball Head Coach, where his teams made the tournament each year and won at least one playoff game each season. Overall, in three seasons with the Crusaders the teams had a 33-27 record.
In 2020, while finishing his Educational Doctorate Degree in Sports Leadership Chris transitioned into the Assistant Coach role for the Women's Basketball Team at Saint Joseph's College of Maine where he is a professor of Sports Management and Co-Facilitator of the Monk Leadership Academy, teaching students and athletes valuable skills in leadership and athletics alike.
Chris's passion for sports and helping athletes succeed has extended into multiple speaking engagements, a 2-year partnership with Iowa Wesleyan Women's Basketball as their Leadership Coach, and many summers as a PGC Basketball Instructor. Chris can offer video breakdown and analysis in order to prepare athletes for upcoming games, lessons in leadership that will help individuals define and expand on their role within the team, and a knowledge of conditioning and game strategy needed for success on the court.