FDU Hall of Fame
Mike LoPresti, a two-time national champion, is the winningest women's bowling coach in NCAA history. The New Jersey native spent 21 years leading the Knights after establishing the program in time for the 2002-03 season. In those two decades of leadership, LoPresti accumulated 1,674 wins and cemented FDU as a staple in the National Top 25 polls. In 2006, LoPresti's Knights defeated Alabama A&M to capture the program's first national championship. Just four years later, FDU won their second national title by toppling Nebraska. During his tenure, LoPresti was named the National Tenpin Coaches Association (NTCA) Coach of the Year three times and ten of his student-athletes achieved NTCA First Team All-American honors. Under LoPresti's tutelage, FDU won five NEC tournament titles and eight regular season crowns, both of which are NEC records. LoPresti's squads saw six bowlers combine for nine NEC Bowler of the Year awards. In the classroom, nearly every women's bowling student-athlete from the program's inception graduated with an FDU degree and the program has amassed more than 25 Academic All-America honorees. LoPresti joins the FDU Hall of Fame as a true pillar of NCAA women's bowling, as he previously served as the NTCA president and on the NCAA women's bowling committee.
