Joe Zydor begins his second season as an assistant coach with the Pioneers, bringing over 25 years of experience to the table.

Zydor joins the Pioneers after spending two years as an assitant coach at Adelphi University from 2008-10.  Prior to his time in Garden City, Zydor was at the helm of neightboring New York Institute of Technology’s womens program for eight seasons, leadin the 2003 Lady Bears recorded a 10-7-2 mark, the best in the program’s history. During his tenure at NYIT, he posted a 54-79-5 overall record. 

Prior to his stint at NYIT, Zydor was the head girls’ varsity coach at George W. Hewlett High School for eight years (1992-2000). He began his high school coaching career in 1986 when he took over the freshman boys’ soccer program at Lawrence High School. He left Lawrence in 1989 and moved to Malverne High School where he became the head coach of the girls’ varsity soccer team as well as the boys and girls junior varsity basketball teams, positions he held until 1992.

Zydor has been a head coach and clinic instructor for player development with the Hewlett-Lawrence Soccer Club since 1975 and a Long Island Junior Soccer League Select (LIJSLS) head coach since 1998. A native of Woodmere, N.Y., Zydor currently resides with his wife, Peggie, in Valley Stream, N.Y.