Matt Luneau - Women's Basketball Coach - Syracuse University Athletics

Matt Luneau

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
mluneau@syr.edu
Phone:
3761

Matt Luneau is in his fifth season as SU’s associate head coach and his sixth year on the Orange coaching staff. He is involved in opponent scouting and gameplan preparation, as well as working with the Syracuse post players.

SU-CCESS
Luneau was part of history in 2007-08 as forward Fantasia Goodwin set the Syracuse single-game standard with 25 rebounds when she pulled down a career-high eight offensive and 17 defensive boards against Saint Peter’s. Current junior Vionca Murray also capitalized on Luneau’s techniques, finishing fifth on the team with 6.9 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.

Luneau was a part of the all-around success of Vaida Sipaviciute in 2006-07. Sipaviciute is the 16th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points and she is third on Syracuse’s career block chart with 179. She was first on the team with blocks (1.9), second in points (13.6) and third in rebounding (5.8).

Luneau’s 2005 recruiting class ranked 45th-best in the nation according to the All-Star Girls Report, one of the premier women’s basketball recruiting publications in America.

After one year as an assistant, Luneau was promoted to associate head coach in 2004 and made his presence felt immediately. The Orange’s first recruiting class was ranked 24th in the nation by the Blue Star Index. Of the five freshmen who made up the 2004-05 class, three were McDonald’s All-America "Dream 100" picks, while another was ranked in the top 100 by the National Roundball Journal.

In 2003, Luneau recruited All-BIG EAST Second Team member Sipaviciute from the Patterson School. Current SU head coach Quentin Hillsman was the head coach of the Patterson School at that time.

Luneau coached for one season as an assistant at Vermont prior to his arrival in Syracuse.

PRIOR TO BECOMING AN ORANGE
Before joining the Catamounts, Luneau spent five seasons as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Siena College. During his tenure with the Saints, the team won four MAAC regular-season championships. The 2000-01 team captured the school’s first MAAC Tournament title and earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament. He recruited both Gunta Basko and Liene Jansone from Latvia. Basko was a two-time conference Player of the Year (2000-01, 2001-02), while Jansone earned the MAAC Rookie of the Year Award in 2000-01 and the MAAC Player of the Year Award in 2002-03.

Luneau began his coaching career in 1990 as an assistant boys’ basketball coach at Peoples Academy in Morrisville, Vt. He was an assistant for the men’s team at Johnson State College from 1991-93 and the head boys’ varsity coach at Richford High School in Richford, Vt. from 1992-94.

His last stop before Siena was as an assistant women’s coach at The College of St. Rose from 1994-97. In his three seasons the Golden Knights recorded an 81-11 mark and made three trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament. In his final season, the team was 29-1 and was ranked number one in the nation.

Luneau earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Johnson State in 1991 and a master’s degree in special education from The College of St. Rose in 1997.

He and his wife, Ilze, have three daughters, Iliana, Marika and Evangelica.

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