Central Maine Community College has announced the hiring of Michael Mercuri as its new Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach. Mercuri will work under head coach Dave Gonyea and joins fellow assistants Corey David and Jared Rubin on the coaching staff.
“I am thrilled coach Mercuri is joining our staff,” said Athletic Director Gonyea. “His experience at the high school level will be beneficial both in the recruiting circuit and working individually with our players. It may take him a bit to acclimate to the college ranks, but I believe he will offer assistance immediately.”
Mercuri joins the Mustangs after almost two decades coaching in Massachusetts. He most recently spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Shrewsbury High School, with previous stops at Nashoba Regional High School, Hudson, Littleton, and Hudson Catholic High School, his alma mater. Mercuri has five years total of head coach experience while at Hudson and Nashoba, where his team won the league championship in 2021.
Outside of high school basketball, Mercuri has spent 15 years coaching on the AAU circuit with the CMAC Hawks, Team New England, and Worcester Basketball Club. He has also been heavily involved with running youth camps and clinics.
“I am thrilled and deeply grateful for the opportunity to join coach Gonyea, the dedicated staff, and the talented student-athletes at CMCC,” Mercuri said. “I look forward to contributing to the team’s continued success in any way I can. This will also be an amazing learning experience for myself, to continue to grow as a coach under Dave Gonyea. What we do as coaches on the court is secondary to helping our student-athletes grow into exceptional young men of high character, and I look forward to building lasting relationships and helping the team thrive on and off the court.”
The Hudson, MA native holds a degree in Marketing and Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Away from the court, Mercuri has been a licensed property and casualty insurance advisor for 20 years.
Mercuri replaces former assistant Steve Carey who leaves CMCC to become the head coach of the University of Maine at Augusta men’s basketball team. Central Maine is coming off a 2024-25 campaign that saw the Mustangs go 17-13 and reach the semifinals of the Yankee Small College Conference Tournament for the ninth straight season. The team opens it 2025-26 campaign on October 3rd with a three-game road trip through Canada.
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