LoPiccolo enters his 13th year overall at Oneonta in 2012-13. He joined the coaching staff in 2000 as the head coach of the cross-country program while also being solely responsible for reestablishing the college’s track & field program after a nearly 30-year hiatus as a varsity sport. He spent the first six years as the head coach of both programs before taking over the cross-country program and serving as the associate head coach for track & field. In 2010-11, he became the head coach of the track program while remaining as the associate coach for cross-country.
The Red Dragons entered the NCAA as an official sport in track & field in 2003 and promptly qualified an individual for the Outdoor National Championships. Since then, he has coached 36 All-Americans, including three National Champions. Most recently, Sean Bernstein won the 200 meters at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships in a meet record time of 20.80 seconds, which is the third fastest time ever in Division III. In March of 2009, the men's 4x400 relay of Joe Reed, Fred Romer, Sean Daly, and Eric Theiss won the program's first national title indoors. The first outdoor title came in 2006, coaching alongside Mike Schmidt, Musu Jackson-Buckner won the NCAA Championship in the 200 meters, running 23.75, which remains one of the top-10 fastest times in Division III history.
LoPiccolo has served as the meet director for three SUNYAC outdoor track & field championships, the ECAC outdoor championship in 2007 and the conference cross country championship in 2003. In 2010, he was co-meet director of the highly successful NCAA Atlantic Region Cross Country Championships held in Oneonta at Fortin Park. He serves on the NCAA Division III Track & Field Executive Committee as the Atlantic Region Representative. Prior, he served on the NCAA Division III Cross Country Executive Committee as the Atlantic Region Women’s Representative from 2009-2011.
Also a competitive runner, LoPiccolo earned his own All-American honors in 1998, where he placed fifth at the NCAA DIII Indoor Championships in the 800 meters. Later that outdoor season, he ran 1:50.34 for 800, which was the fastest in Division III in 1998. In 2004, running for the Syracuse Chargers Track Club, LoPiccolo ran for 3:43.56 for 1500 meters, narrowly missing the Olympic Trials standard by half a second.
LoPiccolo graduated from Plattsburgh State in December 1997 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, and continued work on his Master's Degree in Liberal Arts through 2000. He currently resides in Oneonta, NY with his wife Amanda, who is a chiropractor in Oneonta and a competitive runner who has qualified five times for the USATF National Track & Field Championships.
