Coaching Staff

Marcel Godino
Associate Head Men's Coach

Marcel Godino finished his fifth season with the Union College men's lacrosse team in 2024, serving as the team's offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator. He served as an assistant coach for his first four seasons before being promoted to Associate Head Coach for the 2023-24 school year.

Godino's tenure in Schenectady has coincided with the best stretch of sustained excellence in program history. The team has reached the NCAA Tournament in each of the last three seasons, marking the first streak of three straight NCAA berths in program history, and has produced 26 USILA All-Americans - including the three highest single-season totals in school history - as well as a USILA National Faceoff Person of the Year (Matthew Paolatto, 2024) and an IMLCA National Offensive Player of the Year (Peter Burnes, 2022) over the last four years. The team has been nationally ranked by the USILA in every week of Godino's five-year tenure, reaching as high as second in Division III during the 2022 season, and boasts the fourth-longest active ranking streak in Division III.

Union finished the 2022 season with an 18-3 record and reached the Division III national championship game for the first time ever, earning the first NCAA quarterfinal and semifinal wins in program history along the way. Following the season, Godino and head coach Derek Witheford were recognized as the IMLCA National Coaching Staff of the Year and the ECAC D-III Coaching Staff of the Year, while Godino was recognized as the IMLCA Division III National Assistant Coach of the Year honors as well. In his role as offensive coordinator, he helped to develop the IMLCA National Offensive Player of the Year and six USILA All-Americans on the offensive side of the ball.

Godino came to Union following two seasons at fellow Liberty League school Skidmore College, where he served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator under former Union assistant coach Tucker Kear as well as serving as interim co-head coach to finish out the 2018 campaign. In his first season, he helped the Thoroughbreds to their highest scoring total in six years and the second-best man-up offense in the conference.

Previously, Godino spent three years as an assistant coach at Bard College, helping to build up a young program alongside former Dutchman Alex Stone ’13. With Godino on staff, the Raptors increased their win total in all three seasons and won their first-ever Liberty League game.

Godino played collegiately at Manhattan College, where he was a three-year team captain and four-year letterwinner from 2011-15. In 63 games for the Jaspers, Godino scored 55 goals with 30 assists for 85 career points and was named the team’s Most Outstanding Player as a senior. He graduated from Manhattan in 2015 with a bachelor’s of science in physical education.