Academic Snapshot
Acceptance Rate
94%
Avg SAT
1,020
Avg ACT
20
Enrollment
1,754
Team Information
Sport
Basketball
Gender
Women's
Division
NCAA Division 2
Location
Lodi, NJ
Coaching Staff (4)
Steve Fagan
Head Coach
Fagan was named Felician's head women's basketball coach in September 2008. After a rebuilding year, he posted three consecutive winning seasons -- the first time that had happened in program history. In 2011-12, Fagan guided the Golden Falcons to the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference North Division regular-season title, another program first. For his efforts, he was named the CACC Coach of the Year. Fagan and Felician have reached the CACC quarterfinals on three occasions. Fagan came to Felician after one season as the head coach at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. From 2002-07, he was the head coach and assistant director of athletics at Globe Institute of Technology. He posted an 89-43 record in five seasons at Globe, guiding the Knights to four NJCAA Division 1 regional championship games. Fagan began his coaching career at St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School in Staten Island, N.Y. - his alma mater while also teaching physical education for three years. In 1996, he became the lead assistant at Division-I St. Francis College of Brooklyn. Fagan served as the interim head coach of the Terriers for the 1999-2000 campaign. He went on to work for the basketball instruction organization The Hoop Group for two years. Fagan played collegiately at Brooklyn College and Pace University before receiving his bachelor of arts degree in mass media/communications from Pace in 1993. As a junior, he set Pace's single-season assist record with 148.
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Tierra Cleaves
Assistant Coach
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Rochelle Forbes
Assistant Coach
Forbes returned to her alma mater as a volunteer assistant coach in September 2008, was added to the staff permanently the following season, and assumed the role of lead assistant in September 2014. Prior to re-joining the Golden Falcons, Forbes spent the 2007-08 academic year as a volunteer assistant at Bergen Community College. Forbes was a three-year starter for the Golden Falcons at power forward, and is still among the College's top five all-time leading rebounders. She graduated with a BS in accounting in 2006 with a 3.67 GPA. She was a two-year captain and her teams made three appearances in the CACC quarterfinals. While an undergraduate, Forbes gained membership in the Sigma Beta Delta business honor society, and was chosen to atted the 2005 NCAA Division-II Leadership Academy in Boston. Forbes earned an AA in computer science from Vanier College in Montreal, Quebec, in 2002. Forbes completed an MBA at Felician in 2009. She is a bookkeeper for Unique Technologies Associates in Avenel. A native of Montreal, she now resides in Paterson.
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Natasha Gonel
Coach
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