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)).
Ph.D. Miami University, Rhetoric and Composition, 2019
M.A. Miami University, Rhetoric and Composition, 2015
Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Miami University, 2015
Dual B.A. Northern Kentucky University, English Literature; Philosophy, 2012
As an Appalachian Kentucky native, Caleb Pendygraft has spent his academic career interested in the intersections of reading, writing, mean-making, and identity. Particularly, he is curious about how we embody our literacies in places, and researches LGBTQ Appalachian literacy practices. His scholarly work explores how becoming literate involves a vast diversity of non-human agents. Making use of new materialist philosophies, his pedagogy and writing treats literacy as an active participatory force in our everyday life. His teaching repertoire is interdisciplinary, having taught a number of classes: American Culture; Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels; Literature; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; along with Business Communications and Technical writing. You can find his publications in KillJoy Magazine and Appalachia Journal. Recently, he has a coauthored chapter in Storytelling in Queer Appalachia (2020, WVU Press). He has two chapters in process. One which explores a theoretical concept he coins "embodied technologies" and another that examines new materialism in Appalachian LGBTQ Anthropocene literature. Outside the Academy, Caleb is a proud cat dad and loves to be out in nature.
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.
Mike Rainnie joined the Buccaneer football staff in 2003. Rainnie came to Buzzards Bay after an 18-year standout career at Falmouth High, where he served for 15 years as an assistant and three years as a head coach. After graduating from Colgate, Rainnie coached in the collegiate ranks at Hamilton and also served as an assistant at both Bourne and Middleboro High Schools. During his tenure, Mike has mentored several all-conference performers for the Buccaneers, including all-conference and all-regional pick John Moriarty ’14.
Education: M.A.,New York University; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
Background:
Courses taught:
- Spanish I
- Spanish II
- Western Civilization (Social Science Department)
Education: B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Courses taught: English Composition, Introduction to Literature, Writers of the American South, American Literature II: Civil War to the Present, and Exploring African American Literature through the Blues
Dr. Anton L. Smith is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he teaches courses in African American, American Literature, and first year writing. His current book project, In the Pursuit of Faith: Profiles in African American Literature, Religion and Spirituality, 1935-1965, examines how religiosity is negotiated, constructed, and contested through various symbolic resources including soul food, the blues, and nature.
