Bio

Scarpino served as director of athletics at Seminole State College from 2002 until 2016. During that time, he oversaw a successful athletics program, which included women’s basketball that qualified for the FCSAA State Tournament four times, were ranked in the top 20 nationally for both athletics and academics and produced numerous individual academic award recipients before the program was discontinued following the 2008 season. While at Seminole, Scarpino also began a women’s golf program that has gone on to win three national championships.

In 2004, he was elected by the FSCAA to serve as Women’s Basketball State Chair. Even after Seminole discontinued its program, he continued to serve as chair until 2016. In the role, Scarpino began the women’s JUCO Shootout and was the driving force behind establishing the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

In addition to his role as director at Seminole, he served as the Mid-Florida Conference chair, was actively involved on both National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and National Alliance of Two Year College Athletic Administrators executive committees and was tapped to serve on the NJCAA national reorganization committee. He was also NATYCAA’s first vice president.

Scarpino officially began his new role Aug. 2.