Frank Allocco 

Frank Allocco was born and raised in New Providence, New Jersey. He attended The Academy of Our Lady of Peace in New Providence and then attended New Providence High School where he was All State in three sports, football, basketball and baseball. He was also honored as the Scholar Athlete for the class of 1971.

Upon graduation from high school, he attended the University of Notre Dame where he participated on the Varsity football and basketball teams under the tutelage of Ara Parseghian and Digger Phelps. He was a three-year letterman in football as a quarterback and was set to be the starting quarterback in his senior year until a separated shoulder curtailed his playing time. (www.frankallocco.com)

Frank moved to California in 1976 and traveled 15 Western States as the Regional Sales Manager for Barnell Loft Publications where he worked with Educational School Districts for over fifteen years. He then became the President of Incentives for Learning, Inc, an educational publisher/distributor, and was the President of Gold Timers, a geriatric publishing/distributing firm. He served the community as a coach for the Saint Agnes CYO program and was the Athletic Director for St. Agnes for over ten years. He is currently the Vice President of the East Diablo CYO program.

In 1981, he founded the popular Excel in Basketball summer camp that serves as a teaching camp for basketball skills and provides a motivational base for the thousands of youngsters in California and in New Jersey who attend his camp each year. He has been a featured motivational speaker at corporate sales meetings, business groups and organizations, basketball clinics and camps. His message “The Winning Edge” has been embraced by the thousands of people who have heard his inspirational lectures. He was the lead clinician at the Nike All Asia Basketball Clinics in Beijing and in Shanghai. In 2010 and 2016 he was the lead lector at the Belgium Basketball Association National Clinic. He has also trained coaches for the USA Basketball Coach’s Academy. He is a popular speaker and clinician at the Nike Championship Basketball Clinics and his six instructional videos for Championship Productions have helped coaches throughout the U.S.

Mr. Allocco became the Head Basketball Coach at Northgate High School in 1991. Prior to his arrival, Northgate had just 1 winning season in their previous 10 years. In his six-year tenure, the Broncos compiled a 167-28 won-lost record. They were the California State Champions in 1995 and were the State Runner-up in 1996.

In May of 1997 he was named the Head Basketball Coach at De La Salle High School in Concord, CA. In eighteen years his teams won 17 league championships, 10 Section Championships, 3 Regional Championships, and 2 State Championships. His teams advanced to the Final Four of the state of California ten times.

In June of 2015, Coach Allocco was named the Associate Head Coach at the University of San Francisco. In just one year there, he became their lead recruiter and was responsible for three of the top recruits in 2016. He is currently the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Relations where he works with the community on a number of initiatives including speaking, public service and support for the USF and San Francisco Communities. In his “spare time” he is the President of the East Diablo CYO League in the Oakland Diocese.