Craig was hired as the Lackawanna College men's soccer coach in January 2025, and will enter his first season as head coach for the 2025 fall campaign.
Wilkinson comes to Lackawanna after spending the previous three seasons as the head women’s soccer coach at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Wilkinson was 16-25-10 at King’s in three years, coaching four All-MAC Freedom conference selections. His first season at King’s (2022), the Monarchs started out with six wins and two draws in their first eight games, the best start for the program in its history. He ended up with seven wins and four draws in 2022, marking the most games where the Monarchs did not record a loss since the 2013 season.
Wilkinson has extensive coaching experience at the collegiate level, having spent nearly two decades coaching soccer. Wilkinson, a graduate of Nyack College in 2006, immediately hopped into coaching at Dominican College as an assistant for the men’s soccer team. He bounced around from there, spending time at Suffolk County CC as an assistant, then was named as an associate head coach with Dominican, before taking an assistant coaching position at Centenary. His first head coaching spot came at Concordia College for two seasons in 2011. He’s also had head coaching stints at Colby-Sawyer College, Medaille College, and at Bridgton FC and with the Bridgton Academy, where he coached soccer, was Director of Operations for the club, and was an admissions counselor for the academy.
