Garden City, N.Y. - Adelphi Director of Athletics and Campus Recreation
Danny McCabe has tabbed
David Mattana to lead the University's men's golf team, effective immediately.
A former high-level competitive golfer for thirty years, Mattana comes to Adelphi from Nassau Community College, where he spent two seasons as the program's head coach, following two years in an assistant role.
In his inaugural year coaching Nassau, Mattana guided the Lions to an NJCAA Region XV Championship and a 10th-place finish at the NJCAA National Championships. He mentored Conor Maloney to All-America honors and earned NJCAA Region XV Coach of the Year status in the process. Mattana also successfully raised over $30,000 for the program in the 2018-19 academic year.
He arranged access for the team to play at many of Long Island's top golf clubs and with several top teaching pros and took Nassau overseas to Scotland, where they played at the famed Carnoustie Golf Links and St. Andrew's Old Course -- both of which have served as sites for the world-renowned Open Championship.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dave Mattana to Adelphi. His experience as a coach and involvement in the local golf community will allow him to provide a great student-athlete experience to our golfers," McCabe said. "Dave shares in our ideals of allowing college athletics to help prepare students for life after college. Please join us in welcoming him to the Panther family!"
Mattana currently serves as President of the Long Island Golf Association and as a member of the Executive Board of the Metropolitan Golf Association. He caddied at the 2016 Shell Houston Open and -- most recently -- qualified for the Met Senior Open and finished 24th in the New York State Men's Senior Amateur Championship.
"I am delighted to be joining the outstanding students, faculty, and staff who make up the Adelphi family, and look forward to working with all of them to return Adelphi golf to prominence," Mattana remarked. "The current group of Adelphi golfers exude a passion for golf, and for the Adelphi program, which makes their eventual success inevitable."
Before joining the coaching ranks, Mattana spent time as a practicing attorney and over 20 years as an oil futures trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Mattana, who holds a 3 handicap, graduated with his bachelor's degree from Ithaca College in 1983 and received his juris doctor with distinction from the Hofstra University School of Law in 1986.
Mattana will make his coaching debut with the Panthers on Sunday, Sept. 12 at the two-day Franklin Pierce Fall Invitational at Keene Country Club in Keene, N.H.
