Greg Van Pelt joined the Rider men's basketball staff in the summer of 2017 following six years in a variety of coaching roles. Most recently, he filled LIU Brooklyn’s Director of Basketball Operations position for the 2016-17 season. In 2015-16, he was an assistant coach at Montclair State, following the 2014-15 season as Director of Basketball Operations at Saint Peter’s.
He also spent a year as assistant coach at Susquehanna University in 2013-14, while Van Pelt was a two-year Graduate Assistant Coach at East Stroudsburg University from 2011-13.
Van Pelt got his start in coaching as a student assistant coach at his alma mater, Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a degree in management with a concentration in technology management.
