In Chis-Luca’s first three seasons, the Lady Rams have been one of the top teams in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC). The team has appeared in all three CACC championship tournaments and won inaugural conference title in 2009.

 

Last season Chis-Luca was tabbed as the CACC coach of the year after leading the Lady Rams to an 11-7 overall record and the team’s second trip to the conference final. A conference-high seven players represented Philadelphia University on the All-CACC team including CACC player of the year Caribeth Shappell.

 

The Lady Rams have placed 11 different players on the All-CACC team, including two CACC players of the year—Katherine Sullivan (2009) and Shappell—in Chis-Luca’s tenure. Kathryn Maurer was selected to participate in the 2010 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association North-South Senior All-Star Game.

 

Before arriving at Philadelphia University, Chis-Luca was the head boy’s lacrosse coach at Northern Burlington High School during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The Greyhounds posted a 12-5 record in 2008—a 10-win improvement— and won the division title. He also served as the head JV football coach and assistant varsity football coach at Northern Burlington from 2006 until 2008.

 

Chis-Luca, a 2004 graduate from Rowan University—where he founded the school's ice hockey club in 2001—with a degree in health and physical education, is a physical education teacher at the New Grange School in Princeton, N.J. He previously held that title at Northern Burlington and Ocean Avenue Elementary School. At Ocean Avenue he was named the teacher of the year.