University of Hartford Men's Basketball

Aaron Toomey enters his third season as the men's basketball coach at the University of Hartford in 2025-26.  In his first two season as the Hawks head coach, Toomey holds a record of 12-38 with a Conference of New England (CNE) record of 3-15. His first win at the University of Hartford came on November 10th of 2023 in his home opener at Chase Arena as the Hawks defeated Baruch College by a 66-62 final. Toomey's first CNE win came on December 11th defeating Wentworth Institute of Technology 80-56.   Prior to Hartford, Toomey served as interim head coach at Amherst College during the 2019–20 season, guiding the Mammoths to a stellar 18-8 record. He was selected to the Under Armour 30-Under-30 Team in 2019, which honors the nation's most outstanding men's basketball coaches under the age of 30.   As an assistant coach at Amherst from 2015–19, Toomey coached under David Hixon, one of the winningest college basketball coaches in NCAA history.   Toomey also served as an assistant coach at Vassar College (2020–21) before spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Rochester, where he helped lead the Yellow Jackets to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2022, the Rochester men's basketball coaches were honored as the D3hoops.com Region 3 Coaching Staff of the Year.   The all-time leading scorer at Amherst, Toomey was named the 2013 AP National Player of the Year and 2014 D3hoops.com Player of the Year. The Mammoths reached the NCAA Tournament each year of Toomey's undergraduate career, winning the national title in 2013. He is Amherst's all-time leading scorer (2,033 points) and is at the top of the Amherst record book in free throws and three pointers made. Such an illustrious playing career led to his selection to the D3hoops.com All-Decade First Team for the 2010s. Following his Amherst playing career, Toomey played one season of professional basketball for CB Getafe in Spain. Toomey defined the model student-athlete while competing at Amherst. He won the Gordon B. Perry Memorial Award, given to one first-year student annually whose participation and attitude in athletics and other extracurricular activities are outstanding. Toomey then culminated his four years there by receiving the Howard Hill Mossman Trophy, awarded annually to the member of the senior class who brought the greatest honor (relating to both achievement and sportsmanship) in athletics to the college.   Toomey received a bachelor's degree in English from Amherst College and a master's degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Matthew Kittner enters his third season at the University of Hartford in 2025-26. With the Hawks, Kittner is the lead recruiting coordinator for the men's basketball team while also helping with skill development, practice and game preparation, fundraising, alumni outreach and community service projects.  Prior to being at Hartford, Kittner was the assistant coach at the College of New Jersey where he was the lead assistant and lead recruiting coordinator. While at TCNJ, Kittner was a part of the 2020-21 NJAC Regular Season Champions team, while also making the conference playoffs in all three-seasons he was there. Matthew also organized and directed multiple elite prospect basketball clinics at TCNJ.  Kittner also served as an assistant coach in the 21st Maccabiah games for Team USA in 2022. Under head coach Doug Gottlieb, the USA would win the gold medal. Matthew was responsible for assisting with player development, practice planning, scouting opponents, film breakdown and lineup information.  Before being at the College of New Jersey, Kittner was an assistant coach at Penn State Abington for three years. During his time there, he was the lead recruiting coordinator for all out of state prospective student-athletes. Kittner helped the Nittany Lions to their first home conference tournament game and win in program history in 2018-19. He also served as the associate varsity basketball head coach at Bogota High School in New Jersey for seven years ending in 2017.  Kittner was a two-year letter winner at FDU-Florham, where he was a SAAC representative. Kittner graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University - Teaneck with a bachelor's in political science.

Luke Fredsell joins Aaron Toomey's staff ahead of the 2025-26 season.  Fredsell joins the Hawks men's basketball program after being an assistant coach at Utica University since 2022. While at Utica, Fredsell and the Pioneers made three NCAA Tournament appearances after winning three-straight Empire 8 Tournament Championships. Luke was also a part of the Empire 8 Coaching Staff of the year in two seasons and helped recruit six First Team All-Empire 8 selections.  Prior to his time at Utica, Fredsell a student-athlete for Northern Vermont University - Lyndon where he played in 82 games for the Hornets with 127 career three-pointers. While at NVU-Lyndon Luke was a Sports Information Intern with the Hornets and was also an Athletic Event Intern for the Syracuse Stallions.  Fredsell graduated from Northern Vermont University - Lyndon with a bachelor's in Sport Management.