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PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Ron Hilliard

Lucas Martorana

Bio Divider - PBA Highlights

Lucas Martorana was named the head men's soccer coach in Nov. 2022 after serving as the interim head coach for the 2022 season. Martorana started with the Sailfish as an assistant in Summer of 2017. He was elevated to associate head coach before the 2020 season. He has been instrumental in on-field training sessions and recruiting for a program that has won four Sunshine State Conference titles and carried a 61-9-6 record during his tenure as an assistant.

After taking the reigns in July of 2022, the 'Fish got off to a quick start and climbed all the way to No. 2 in the nation according to the United Soccer Coaches poll. PBA was able to defeat then ranked No. 9 Saint Leo as well as two teams in Lander and Rollins who qualified for the NCAA Tournament. The Sailfish finished the season with a 8-5-2 record

Martorana had three student-athletes earn All-Sunshine State Conference honors during the 2024 season. Narcis Bou Dalmou was named first team all conference while Harry Gardner (second team) and Jake Strachan (third team) earned all-league honors. The trio helped Martorana lead PBA back to the Sunshine State Conference tournament.

The Sailfish returned to national prominence in 2025. The Sailfish posted a 13-3-2 overall record, including an undefeated 8-0-2 mark in Sunshine State Conference play. PBA was ranked as high as No. 2 in the United Soccer Coaches' top-25. PBA won the SSC regular season championship and was named the No. 1 seed in NCAA Super Region 2. The 'Fish had five players earn all-SSC honorees with Juan Hermoso being named the league's Defensive Player of the Year and Flavio Giannini being named the SSC Goalkeeper of the Year. Hermoso and PBA's Tin Vastic each earned all-American honors. Vastic led the Sailfish and the SSC in goals in 2025 while Hermoso helped anchor a defense that was the best in the SSC in Goals Against Average.

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  • 1 SSC Regular Season Championship (2025)
  • 1 SSC Coaching Staff of the Year (2025)
  • 11 All-Sunshine State Conference Honorees
  • 8 Sunshine State Conference Weekly Awards
  • 4 D2CCA All-Region Honorees
  • 4 USC All-Regional Honores
  • 1 USC All-American
  • 2 D2CCA All-Americans
  • 19 CSC Academic All-District Honorees
  • 1 D2CIDA National Player of the Week
  • 1 CSC Academic All-American

Bio Divider - Prior to PBA
 
Martorana comes to Palm Beach Atlantic from Success Academy Soccer Program where he served as a coach and administrator providing free youth soccer programs as part of school design to underserved youth in Harlem, Bronx, and Brooklyn. In addition to his time at SA soccer program, Martorana coached four years at NCAA DII Malone University Men's Soccer and has coached youth soccer for over 12 years in Ohio, Florida, and New York.  
 
Coach Martorana was a member of the SUNY Buffalo men's soccer team for three seasons and captained Malone University men's soccer for one season. While at Malone he earned NCCAA All Region and All Conference accolades. Martorana earned his degree in Mathematics and continued on at Malone to serve as an assistant coach of the men's soccer program for four years. During that time he also earned his master's in school counseling and guidance, coordinated after school programs, and played semi-professionally in the USL, PDL, and MISL.  He has worked as an academic advisor for four years at Florida State University and currently splits his time at PBA and coaching youth at Weston Select Soccer Club.
 
Coach Martorana holds his NSCAA Director of Coaching, Premier, Advanced National, National, Futsal, Goalkeeper level 1 diplomas and has his USSF D License.

Martorana is a native of Warren, Ohio, his wife Christine is a Professor at Florida International University and they have a 5 year old daughter Sofia.


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Year -Overall- -Conference- -Notes-
W-L Pct. W-L Pct.
2022 8-5-2 .600 4-4-2 .500
2023 6-8-2 .438 3-6-1 .350
2024 6-6-3 .500 5-4-1 .550 SSC Tournament Appearance
2025 13-3-2 .778 8-0-2 .900 NCAA Tournament Berth / SSC Regular Season Champions / SSC Coaching Staff of the Year
4 Seasons 33-22-9 .586 20-14-6 .575

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