New coach expects Brooklyn College softball team to take CUNYAC title
At his age, Mike Ponsiglione didn’t think that he would be offered a job as a softball coach at the college level, but after 13 years coaching at St. Joseph by the Sea in Staten Island he got a job coaching the Brooklyn College Bulldogs.
“I played baseball here in the 80s,” Ponsiglione said. “So this is like coming home for me. I’m really embracing it. I never thought that I would get a college job at my age and I’m grateful to the administration for hiring me. I love it, I love everything about the job. So far the kids and I have gotten along great. They work hard for me, they believe in what we’re trying to do.”
It might have taken him 13 years to land a coaching gig in college, but Ponsiglione has immediately inherited a team that is capable of winning a championship in the City University of New York Athletic Conference right away.