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Head
Coach Bruce Tallon
Bruce Tallon is in his sxith year as the head women's basketball coach at SUNY Canton. Tallon has guided the Roos into the Sunrise Conference tournament each of the past two seasons and was named co-Coach of the Year in 2007-08. Prior to joining the Sunrise Conference Tallon led SUNY Canton into the championship game of the NJCAA, Region 3 tournament.
Tallon began the women's basketball program at the former Mater Dei College in Ogdensburg and built the program into an NJCAA Region III powerhouse. He won over 150 games during his tenure at Mater Dei and sent numerous players on to four-year colleges and coached several junior college All-Americans. Tallon twice led the Crusaders into the Region III, Division II finals and in 1995 he was named Region III Coach of the Year.
Following the closure of Mater Dei, Tallon was an assistant coach with the women's basketball team at SUNY Canton for two years and then joined the women's basketball program at St. Lawrence University as an assistant coach. In his first season he helped guide the Saints into the Division III National Championship game and the next year helped them go undefeated in the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association and gain another berth in the national tournament.
Prior to coaching in college, Tallon started the girl's basketball program at Long Lake High School where he also coached boy's basketball and girl's softball.
Tallon received an associate's degree in applied science from Cobleskill College, his bachelor's degree in business education from Castleton State College in Vermont, and he did his graduate work at SUNY Plattsburgh, the United States Sports Academy, Albany State College, and Azusa Pacific College.
Tallon is also the Coordinator of the Claxton Learning Center at the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club and just recently received a New York State Service Award for 30 years of coaching.
tallon@canton.edu
(315) 386-7921
