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ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Joe Amplo
Joe Amplo is in his third
season as the associate head
coach of the men’s lacrosse
program and his 11th year
overall on the Pride staff.
Amplo, a four-year letterman
at Hofstra from 1996 through
1999, was an assistant coach
from 1999 to 2001 before
returning to Long Island in
the fall of 2002 after one
year as an assistant coach at
Pennsylvania.
Amplo, who was named
associate head coach in
August 2008, began his
college
coaching career in the fall of 1999 as
a defensive specialist with the Hofstra
midfielders. He served two seasons as an
assistant coach under then-coach John
Danowski, with the Pride advancing to the
NCAA Championship both years.
In 2001 Amplo left Hofstra for Penn, where
the Quakers posted their best record in 13
years, recording the program’s first winning
season and first nine-win campaign since
1989, going 9-4 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy
League during the 2002 season.
Since his return to Hofstra in 2003, the Pride
has posted a 76-49 record and advanced to
five NCAA Championships, including the
quarterfinals in 2006. During his Hofstra
tenure, Amplo has had a hand in coaching
53 all-conference players, including five
conference players of the year, four rookies of
the year, as well as 21 All-Americans. Under
his tutelage in 2001 Doug Shanahan was the inaugural recipient of
the Tewaaraton Trophy, given to the top collegiate lacrosse player,
as well as the Lt. Raymond Enners Award as National Player of
the Year, and the Lt. Donald McLaughlin Award as Midfielder of
the Year. He has also coached a Tewaaraton Award finalist in Chris
Unterstein, as well as 13 North-South All-Stars (including MVP’s
Brett Moyer and Shanahan). During his 10 years on staff, Amplo
has also coached six USILA Scholar-All-Americans.
Amplo’s work with the Pride defense has consistently placed
Hofstra among the best in the nation with the 2006 team ranking
fifth nationally in scoring defense at 6.58 goals per game.
As a player, Amplo was a first team All-America East selection
on defense during his senior year in 1999. He played in 58 games
during his Hofstra career and recorded 91 ground balls. In 1999
Amplo tallied 40 ground balls and registered an assist while
starting all 16 games for Hofstra, which advanced to the NCAA
Tournament quarterfinals that season. He played on three (1996,
14 — 2011 Hofstra Men’s Lacrosse
1997 and 1999) NCAA Tournament teams as a Hofstra player and
has coached in four (2000, 2001, 2003 and 2006).
During his time as a student-athlete Amplo was elected chairperson
of Hofstra’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for
consecutive terms and served
as the Hofstra representative
for the America East
Conference SAAC meetings.
He was also a member of the
NCAA Steering Committee
during Hofstra’s NCAA
certification review.
The Farmingville, Long
Island, native had a stellar
scholastic career at Sachem
High School in Lake
Ronkonkoma, New York,
where he was a four-time
letterman in both lacrosse and football. As a
senior captain, he tallied 20 goals and 15 assists
at midfield and led Sachem to Suffolk County and
Long Island championships and the New York
State championship game. He was named to allconference
teams in both lacrosse and football.
Coach Amplo also serves as director of the Blue
and Gold Lacrosse Camps, which operates on the
Hofstra campus and promotes the game of lacrosse
to young people on Long Island. He is also the
founder and director of the Long Island Classic and
Clinic, which is one of the largest youth and high
school tournaments and clinics in the nation. The
annual event attracts more than 10,000 players and
fans to Hofstra each July.
Active on the lecture
circuit, Coach Amplo
has been a featured
speaker at several national
and regional lacrosse
conventions and clinics,
including the US Lacrosse
Convention, the Potomac
(MD) Convention, the
Philadelphia Coaches
Association Convention,
The Amplo Family
the Pacific Northwest
Coaches Convention,
the Southwest Coaches Convention, the Boston Coaches
Clinic, Hudson Valley Lacrosse Night and numerous speaking
engagements on Long Island.
Amplo graduated from Hofstra with a degree in geography and
holds a master’s in college student counseling from the University
as well. He and his wife, Jennifer, have two daughters, Sophia (5)
and Charlotte (2) The Amplo family resides in Babylon, New York.