Mike Spisto comes to NJIT with seven years of college coaching experience--four as the head coach at the State University of New York at Delhi, a two-year program, and three as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level. His combined four-year record at SUNY Delhi was 86-31 and he served one year as an assistant coach at Rider and two at Albany (NY). Rider captured the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season title in his season there and at Albany, he helped build back-to-back America East Conference champions. He was Director of Athletics at SUNY Delhi the last two years.

Spisto's teams at SUNY Delhi averaged more than 21 wins per season and his 2000-01 team finished 32-2, including a 28-game winning streak. His last team at Delhi was ranked first in the nation for six weeks in 2006. He was two-time Region 3 Coach of the Year in four seasons.

Spisto is a graduate of SUNY Delhi, where he was a two-time all-region honoree and he later graduated from Oneonta, where he was on the 1996 Eastern College Athletic Conference champions and was team captain in 1996-97 as a senior. He holds an associate's degree from Delhi, a bachelor's degree from Oneonta and a master's degree from the United State Sports Academy.

"Mike has been a winner as a head coach and he was part of building things as an assistant at the Division I level," said Engles. "He was with me (as an assistant) at Rider when we won the MAAC regular season title and then he went to Albany and helped recruit and coach the nucleus of the team that went from five wins when he got there to winning back-to-back America East titles and making the NCAAs."