Brian Callahan heads into his seventh season, the second in NJIT's Division I era, having guided the Highlanders to record success, including the 2006 ECAC postseason championship that capped the school's Division II era.

In 2007, facing the Division I schedule, Callahan directed the Highlanders to 15 wins in 43 games. NJIT, 8-10 in its last 18 games of 2007, logged many Division I era firsts, including: first win (23-12 vs. LIU in the fifth game on March 12 in Florida); first shutout win (2-0 over NYIT on May 4) and a four-game winning streak from April 24 to April 29.

On May 22, 2006, Callahan's Highlanders defeated Molloy for the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament championship. The 2006 Highlanders posted a school-record 27 wins, including a three-game sweep of the ECAC Tournament for NJIT's third straight season with at least 20 wins and an ECAC postseason berth.

One of the nation's youngest college head coaches when he took the helm in 2000-01, Callahan improved NJIT's conference finish in each of his first five seasons, culminating in the 2005 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference regular season title.

In his first season (2001), the Highlanders placed seventh in the CACC, before advancing to sixth, fifth, second and then first in 2005. Callahan was voted by his peers as CACC Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2005.

In 2003, the team qualified for its first CACC playoff berth, a feat it repeated in 2004 and 2005 (NJIT was not eligible for the 2006 CACC playoffs). The 2005 Highlanders also won the CACC Team Sportsmanship Award.

Callahan, who has 126 career wins, coached 20 all-conference and two all-region players and one conference Player of the Year at NJIT from 2001 to 2006. And his 2007 team had the program's first New Jersey all-state Division I first-team and national Division I Independent 1st-team all-star, Kwesi Mitchell, who then became a professional baseball signee.

A graduate of Bayonne (NJ) High School in his hometown, Callahan earned bachelor's (1996, magna cum laude) and master's degrees (1998) from Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ.

A four-year baseball letterwinner at Saint Peter's, Callahan earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference all-academic honors as a senior. From 1996 to 1998, he served Saint Peter's as graduate assistant in sports information and assistant baseball coach. He is also a member of the school's intramural Hall of Fame and was an assistant coach at Jersey City's Ferris High School in 1998-99.