Lackawanna College Men's Soccer

Will Flannery was named as the head men's soccer coach in February 2026, and his first season with the Falcons will be in the fall 2026 campaign. Flannery has nearly a decade of collegiate soccer experience already under his belt, and was most recently an assistant coach at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA before coming to Lackawanna. In his season with the Mountain Hawks, Flannery helped guide Lehigh to a Patriot League championship game appearance and six all-conference selections. Flannery oversaw team scouting reports and video analysis, while also managing the recruiting database and coordinating visits and communication with potential recruits. Before going to Lehigh, Flannery spent seven years at Dickinson College in the NCAA Division III ranks. Flannery spent five seasons playing with the Devils, three as a team-captain and navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, then immediately was added as the first assistant and recruiting coordinator after his senior season concluded, becoming the first full-time assistant in program history. Dickinson achieved never-before-seen heights with Flannery's help, making the NCAA Elite 8 for the first time in program history, while hosting both the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in the NCAA tournament. Dickinson finished #6 in the national polls in 2024, and Flanery helped recruit and produce two All-Americans, five All-Region selections, and ten all-conference members in his two years. He balanced his full-time schedule at Dickinson to complete his master's degree at Shippensburg University as a graduate assistant within the Sociology Department. In addition to his collegiate work, Flannery helped organize youth soccer camps for the Lehigh Soccer Academy (LSA) and was a member of the Lehigh Valley United Rush soccer organization. With the LSA, he was a co-director and camp supervisor, coordinating the staff, handling the marketing and advertising, and managing the ins-and-outs of the LSA Youth Soccer camps. With the Rush, he was the head coach of the 2009 boys ECNL-RL squad, as well as the assistant for the 2009 and 2010 boys ECNL squads, helping manage the team personnel, organizing practices, and picking the best tournaments to showcase his players. Flannery has also spent time coaching the USL League 2 side Eagle FC, which competes in the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the league, which is on the fourth rung of the US Soccer Federation system. Based out of Mechanicsburg, the Eagle FC squad offered youth opportunities, as well as semi-professional chances for top-level Division I, II, III, and junior college players to have high-level competition in the summer and off-season.  Flannery owns a bachelor's degree from Dickinson in International Business and Management, and his master's degree in Science from Shippensburg is for Organizational Development & Leadership. Flannery has a USSF Grassroots LIcense, as well as a USSF D License. 

Coach Dave Leonard has been hired as an assistant men's soccer coach ahead of the fall 2026 season, which will be his first with the Lackawanna College men's soccer program. Leonard previously spent his time at fellow Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference member Shepherd University, where he served as an assistant coach/goalkeeper coach with both the men's and women's teams. Leonard joined the men's squad in the spring of 2024, mentoring a United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region honoree in the fall 2024 campaign. He later joined the women's squad in the spring 2025 semester. Leonard has an extensive coaching background, with previous coaching duties as an assistant/goalkeeper coach at Hood College (2016-17) and also at Frederick Community College (2014-16). He has been a youth soccer coach for the Eastern Panhandle Inter-County (EPIC) soccer club since 2014 and has been the club goalkeeper coach since 2016. Leonard has been technical director at EPIC since 2019. Leonard holds his USSF B license and USC Goalkeeper Level 1 certification. He is a Tovo Academy and APFC Positional Play graduate. Leonard adds a MBP Scouting and Analysis Course. Leonard, a 2014 Shepherd graduate, was a four-year member of the Shepherd men's soccer team in his time with the Rams. He also played two years of tennis for Shepherd.

Craig was hired as the Lackawanna College men's soccer coach in January 2025, and will enter his first season as head coach for the 2025 fall campaign. Wilkinson comes to Lackawanna after spending the previous three seasons as the head womens soccer coach at Kings College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. His first season at Kings (2022), the Monarchs started out with six wins and two draws in their first eight games, the best start for the program in its history. He ended up with seven wins and four draws in 2022, marking the most games where the Monarchs did not record a loss since the 2013 season. Wilkinson has extensive coaching experience at the collegiate level, having spent nearly two decades coaching soccer. Wilkinson, a graduate of Nyack College in 2006, immediately hopped into coaching at Dominican College as an assistant for the mens soccer team. He bounced around from there, spending time at Suffolk County CC as an assistant, then was named as an associate head coach with Dominican, before taking an assistant coaching position at Centenary. His first head coaching spot came at Concordia College for two seasons in 2011. Hes also had head coaching stints at Colby-Sawyer College, Medaille College, and at Bridgton FC and with the Bridgton Academy, where he coached soccer, was Director of Operations for the club, and was an admissions counselor for the academy.