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Coaches
Matthew Tantalo
Women’s and Men’s Tennis Head Coach
Men’s Soccer Head Coach
mtantalo@keuka.edu
Tantalo starts his seventh season as the head coach of Keuka College’s women’s tennis team in 2012.
Under Tantalo’s watch, the Storm captured both the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) regular season and postseason tournaments before falling to Castleton State in the NEAC/North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship match. Keuka went 8-5 overall and was a perfect 6-0 against NEAC foes to net both the regular season and postseason championships.
During the 2009-10 season, Tantalo’s Storm squad went 6-6 overall with an impressive 5-2 conference mark. The Storm fell by one point in the NEAC Championship.
In 2008-09, he led the Storm to its first-ever NEAC regular season championship with a 5-1 conference mark (6-6 overall), and guided the team to its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Keuka fell 0-6 to Hope College in its first round match.
Tantalo sports a 28-31 overall record through his first six seasons as coach of the women’s tennis team.
Tantalo also guides the men’s soccer team in the fall and led them to an 8-5-3 record in 2011, and has an impressive career mark of 67-38-10 record (.626 winning percentage) in seven seasons leading the men’s soccer program.
Tantalo was a standout soccer player at RIT, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration and management in 1999. A four-year starter, he played in all 64 games for the Tigers. He earned regional All-America honors in 1995, captained the Tigers in 1997, helped RIT reach the NCAA Division III quarterfinals in 1994, and win the ECAC Upstate crown in 1995.
Ken Owen
Assistant Coach
