Marc Palombo took the helm of the Buccaneer women's lacrosse program in 2017. Overall he has served in a coaching capacity with the team since 2013, the team's second year of existence. A resident of Sandwich, Mass, Palombo is the third head coach and winningest coach in program history.
“Marc has symbolized excellence in lacrosse both as a student-athlete and as a coach, and we are very pleased that he will be leading our women’s program in the years to come. He is greatly respected in both the lacrosse and Academy communities, and we look forward to watching him take this team to a higher level of success."
Palombo is no stranger to the Massachusetts Maritime lacrosse community, as he ranks as one of the top players in the history of the Academy’s men’s program en route to induction into the Buccaneer Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001. A three-sport athlete at Massachusetts Maritime, the Nahant, Mass native graduated in 1978 after leading the Colonial League in scoring on three occasions and earning all-conference accolades in each of his four seasons of play. Selected to play in the East-West Senior All-Star Game as a senior, Marc graduated as the school record-holder for goals in a season (33) and career (150) while also serving as team captain in both 1977 and 1978. His lacrosse jersey #28 was officially retired by the Academy in 1988.
Palombo excelled on the gridiron as well for fellow Hall of Famer Don Ruggeri, as he served as a captain on the Buccaneers’ first New England Football Conference championship squad as a senior and collected all-league honors along the way. Marc was also a two-year ice hockey captain and copped a pair of all-conference accolades during the winters of 1976-77 and 1977-78, and he was tabbed as Massachusetts Maritime’s Athlete of the Year following his senior year.
In three seasons, Coach Palombo has coached two second-team All-MASCAC players (Kianna Carpenter (2017) & Stephanie Hunt (2018)) and one MASCAC Rookie of the Year (Casey Sullivan (2018)).
Greg Perry came to Buzzards Bay as the head men's soccer coach in 1993 and has been a fixture on the sidelines ever since, as he has shattered the school record for career wins along the way. Perry led Massachusetts Maritime to a 4-2-1 league slate in 2014 before falling to eventual conference tournament champion Fitchburg State in the semifinals, as the Buccaneers followed up another highly successful 2013 campaign that saw the program earn its first post-season victory with a MASCAC quarterfinal round triumph over Salem State.
Perry has garnered MASCAC Coach of the Year honors on three occasions, the last coming in 2013 when the Buccaneers recorded eight overall wins and knocked off rivals Bridgewater State and Coast Guard along the way.
A 1989 graduate of Westfield State, Perry was a four-year letterwinner for the Owls after a stellar high school career at Bridgewater-Raynham Regional. He has coached numerous all-conference and all-New England players over the past two-plus decades as well as NSCAA All-America and Buccaneer Hall of Famer Brendan Duggan ’06.
Perry, who resides in Marshfield, Mass., also serves as Massachusetts Maritime’s Assistant Baseball Coach and directs all athletics facilities operations for the Camps & Conferences Department.
Background
• M.S. Facilities Management, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• B.S. Marine Transportation, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• Maritime Port Executive (MPE), Int’l Association of Maritime and Port Executives
• Graduate Certificate Program in Foundations of Business, UMass at Lowell
LCDR Ed Pinero joined MMA in January 2011 as Assistant Director for Student Services and assigned as 6th Company Officer. His assignments include Director for Orientation, Coordinator for MMA’s Intramural Program and Sea Term’s
Terminal Operations. Ed also dedicated 3 years as Assistant Coach for MMA’s football program.
Prior to MMA, Ed was the Director of Transportation for Transpro LLC, Malden, MA. Transpro LLC is a statewide transportation company with 14 Regional Operation Centers throughout Massachusetts.
Ed is a 2011 graduate of CONNECT, Southeastern Massachusetts Public Higher Education Collaborative Leadership Development Program, holds a B.A. in Secondary Education from the University of Puerto Rico, a commission as a US Army Officer from the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Program) and is a graduate of the Army’s Combined Armed Services Staff School- Command and General Staff College. He retired as an Army Transportation Officer with 20 years of service in October 2003.
Ed has over 30 years of transportation experience both in the US Army, as a Transportation Officer, and in the private sector where he held various management positions in transportation and distribution with Target Inc., Pier 1 Imports Inc., Office Depot Inc., and CVS pharmacy in California and Rhode Island.
During his 20 years as an Army Officer, he served in the Transportation Corp, “The Spearhead of Logistics”. Ed’s responsibilities included the planning, directing and executing of US Department of Defense (DoD) and Foreign military operations worldwide involving the use of all modes of transportation to include rail, water, air, and surface. As a young Captain, was selected for command of the 368thTransportation Terminal Service Company in Ft. Story, Virginia Beach where he received numerous accolades for his units’ participation and performance during DoD exercises in Honduras, Turkey, Hawaii, Philippines, Korea, and Japan. During Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm in the early 90’s, Ed served as Transportation Advisor to the state of Arizona’s Army National Guard and US Army Reserve transportation units deploying to and from Southwest Asia.
A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico and resident of Centerville, MA, where he lives with his wife Julie Ann. Ed has 3 children; Eddie (30), Ali (26), and Michael (24).
