Joe Callero
Joe Callero (born August 26, 1962)
Teams coached: Puget Sound Loggers, Seattle Redhawks, Cal Poly Mustangs
Puget Sound record^: 22-25 (.468)
Seattle record^: 117-105 (.527)
Cal Poly record: 126-184 (.406)
Overall record^: 265-314 (.458)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2014)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2013)
- Great Northwest (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 1 (2007)
- Big West Tournament Champion: 1 (2014)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 1 (2007)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2009-2019 | Cal Poly |
| 2001-2009 | Seattle |
| 1999-2001 | Puget Sound |
| 1998-1999 | USC (asst) |
| 1995-1998 | Highline CC |
| 1989-1992 | Highline CC |
Joe Callero Facts
- Joseph Dominic Callero
- Born August 26, 1962
- Hometown: Enumclaw, Washington
- Alma Mater: Central Washington University (BS, 1986) / Seattle University (M.Ed, 1991)
- Callero is one of sixteen, growing up in Enumclaw, WA and attending Enumclaw HS
- Played at Central Washington, helping lead the team to the NAIA Final Four in 1985
- Started his coaching career in 1989 with his first of two three-year stints at Highline CC (WA)
- For three seasons, Callero served as head coach at Sumner HS (WA)
- Returned to Highline for another three years in 1995; finished with a 130-49 record over six seasons
- Earned conference COY honors in 1997 and 1998 after leading the team to a combined 63-2 record over those two years
- Spent the 1998 season as an assistant under Henry Bibby at USC
- Went 22-25 in two seasons as the head coach at Division II University of Puget Sound
- Became the head coach at then-Division II Seattle in 2001, coaching the Redhawks for eight seasons
- Won 117 games at Seattle and won a share of the GNAC regular season title in 2007
- Seattle began transitioning back to Division I in 2008; Callero coached the team as D-I Independent
- Hired in 2009 as the head coach at Division I Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA
- Has taken the Mustangs to two postseason tournaments in nine years, including the program’s first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament by way of a Big West Tournament championship in 2014
- Callero was let go in March 2019 after ten seasons at Cal Poly
- Along with his wife, Erika, has one daughter
Joe Callero Coaching Tree
- Butch Estes (Barry, Palm Beach State)
^ overall record includes head coaching seasons at the NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III levels; Seattle record includes seven seasons when the program was a Division II member
