Bringing more than 20 years of coaching experience to the fold, Mark DeLucia gets set for his fourth year with the football team, serving as the co-defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator in 2024.
DeLucia has coached five defensive backs to all-conference accolades and, after being promoted to co-defensive coordinator in 2023, he has helped 10 Warriors earn a spot on the All-Landmark Conference football team. As recruiting coordinator, he has helped the team land a pair of 50-recruit classes.
In his first year with the Warriors, DeLucia coached a pair of all-region picks as the defensive backs coach, helping Austin Rowley and Hunter Campbell earn accolades from Hansen Ratings.
DeLucia spent 2021 as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Albright College, where he mentored two all-conference players and one Academic All-MAC pick.
Before that, DeLucia moved up the ranks on the defensive coaching staff at Delaware Valley for 14 years, rising to co-defensive coordinator in 2016. Following his graduation in 2006, DeLucia became a coaching intern after graduation and served as the defensive line coach. DeLucia held the defensive line coach position during his entire time on the staff. After his promotion to coordinator, he helped 33 players earn All-MAC honors as well as mentoring two conference defensive players of the year, one D3football.com East Region Defensive Player of the Year, five All-Americans, and six all-region players. The Aggies also won the conference title in three of his four seasons as co-defensive coordinator
DeLucia also spent time as the co-special teams coordinator with the Aggies, and was the team's video coordinator for 11 years. He was a member of the Delaware Valley roster for the first two years of his undergraduate studies before spending the 2004 and 2005 campaigns as a student assistant, helping the Aggies win the first two of nine MAC titles during his time at the college.
The Collegeville, Pa., native earned a Bachelor Science in sports management from Delaware Valley University in 2006.
