Stockton University Women's Basketball

Updated 8/19/25 Devin Jefferson is in her eighth year as the Stockton head women’s basketball coach. The role is her first as a head coach and first at the NCAA Division III level after stints at Division I and Division II. Jefferson has won 68 games on the Osprey bench, with the year’s total improving each year from 2018-24. Last year, Stockton won 11 games under Jefferson’s tutelage, reaching double digits for the fifth consecutive full season. Jefferson led Stockton to 15 victories in 2023-24, the program’s most since 2017-18 and most in her tenure so far. The Ospreys also produced their highest finish in league play since 2017-18 by placing fourth in the conference standings. Stockton tallied 12 wins and finished second in the NJAC in scoring defense and rebound margin in 2022-23. The campaign continued the progression after an 11-win season in 2021-22. The 2020-21 season was limited to just six games due to COVID. In 2019-20, Jefferson steered Stockton to 10 wins, reflecting a two-victory improvement over her initial campaign. In her first season at the helm, Jefferson guided a young Osprey team to eight wins in 2018-19, including five during NJAC play. With just one senior on the roster, the Ospreys gradually improved and finished strong by winning four of their last seven contests. Jefferson arrived at Stockton with 10 years of college coaching experience. Prior to taking over the Ospreys, she spent five years as the associate head coach at Division I Fairleigh Dickinson University. Jefferson served as the Recruiting Coordinator at Fairleigh Dickinson under head coach Pete Cinella and was heavily involved with scouting, player development, compliance and community service programs.  During her five years, Jefferson helped the Knights record 47 victories, including 15 in 2017-18 for the program’s highest win total since 1992-93. Jefferson worked primarily with the post players at FDU and was instrumental in several of them receiving Northeast Conference honors nd continuing their careers professionally. Prior to joining the FDU staff, Jefferson was an assistant coach at the University of Vermont for three years from 2010-13. She coached players who earned two America East All-Conference and two America East All-Rookie honors and helped the Catamounts reached the semifinals of the America East tournament in 2013. Jefferson’s college coaching career began at Division II Bloomfield College, where she was an assistant coach from 2008-10. An Orange, New Jersey native, Jefferson’s collegiate playing career began at Mitchell College (CT), where she was an NJCAA All-America Honorable Mention and NJCAA All-New England selection. She transferred to Seton Hall University and played three seasons for the Pirates in the Big East. Jefferson earned Big East All-Academic Team honors twice and received the team’s Most Improved Player award and Richie Regan Leadership Award. Following her athletic career with the Pirates, Jefferson played semi-professional basketball with the NY Gazelles (Bronx, NY).   Jefferson earned her bachelor’s and master degrees from Seton Hall. She was accepted to the Leadership Newark Fellowship Program in 2008, a network of emerging and established leaders who are committed to focusing on public policy issues in the city of Newark. She also was accepted in the prestigious NCAA Achieving Coaching Excellence (ACE) program in 2016, and the Alliance for Women’s Coaches (now called WeCOACH) and the Women’s Coaches Academy in 2014.

Updated 8/18/25 Claire Incantalupo is in her fourth year as the Stockton head women’s track & field and cross country coach. Hired in January 2023, Incantalupo oversaw an Osprey squad that finished second at the NJAC Indoor Championships and third at the NJAC Outdoor Championships in her first five months on the job.   Last year, Incantalupo led the Stockton women’s cross country team to third in the NJAC Championship for their fifth consecutive top-three placing and then sixth out of 25 teams at the NCAA Regionals for their fourth straight top-six. She also coached the indoor and outdoor track & field squads to third place at the NJAC Championships in 2025.   Under Incantalupo’s direction, Stockton notched runner-up finishes as the NJAC Championships and NCAA Metro Regionals, the program’s best finish ever at an NCAA regional meet in 2024. She steered the women’s track & field teams to third at the NJAC indoor and outdoor championships in 2024.   Incantalupo assumed her role at Stockton after 17 months at Immaculata, where she served as head men’s and women’s track & field coach and fitness center coordinator. In her lone season at Immaculata, Incantalupo led the Mighty Mac men’s and women’s teams at 10 meets, culminating in the Atlantic East Championships.   The position at Immaculata was Incantalupo’s first as a head coach. She moved up after two years as an assistant track & field coach at Utica College, where she was involved in all aspects of the program. Incantalupo also gained experience from one semester as a track & field coaching intern at her alma mater, Rowan University.   As a student-athlete at Rowan, Incantalupo amassed nine NJAC all-conference honors, including five NJAC First Team, plus four United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Region accolades. She ran legs for the Profs’ 4x400 relay team at the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.   A native of Sparta, N.J., Incantalupo graduated from Rowan in 2019 with her bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science, with a minor in Business Marketing. Upon obtaining her degree, she spent the summer of 2019 as an assistant program director/strength & conditioning coach at Parisi Speed School.

Updated 8/19/25 Joanna Persiano is in the third year of her second stint on the Stockton coaching staff. Persiano spent two years as an assistant coach for the Ospreys from 2019-21 and rejoined the staff in 2023. She has helped Stockton to 37 victories in her four total years on the staff. Prior to her arrival at Stockton, Persiano was an assistant at Rutgers-Camden for four years from 2015-19, helping the Scarlet Raptors to 58 wins and three NJAC Tournament berths. As a player, Persiano was a four-year letter winner at Widener University, where she ended her career second on the Pride list with 171 three-pointers. Persiano played in 95 games at Widener (2010-2014), averaging 9.3 points and 2.5 rebounds. She scored 885 career points and added 242 rebounds, 187 assists and 101 steals.   Persiano played in 29 games for the 2012-13 Widener team that advanced to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. She led the Commonwealth Conference in three-point field goal percentage (.424) and finished fifth in three-pointers (50). She also was named to the Middle Atlantic Conference Academic Honor Roll.   During her senior year, Persiano captured All-MAC Honorable Mention after leading Widener with 66 assists and finishing third on the Pride in scoring (12.1 ppg) and steals (23). Persiano graduated from Widener in 2014 with a degree in Education. She served as a JV/assistant varsity basketball coach at Ridley High School during the 2014-15 season.