Florida Southern College

Luke St. Lifer, a 2018 graduate of Florida Southern College, rejoined the men's basketball coaching staff prior to the 2026-27 season as the General Manageer of Men's Basketball. St. Lifer previously served the Florida Southern College men's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach from 2022-23 to 2024-25. In the fall of 2024, St. Lifer assisted the women's basketball staff for the 2024-25 season. From 2025-26, he spent time at VCU as the Director of Basketball Operations under head coach Phil Martelli Jr.

While at VCU, the team went 28-8, winning the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship and a second-round appearance in the NCAA tournament. As the Director of Operations, St. Lifer was responsible for all logistics related to the day-to-day operations of the men’s basketball program, including non-conference scheduling, team travel, managing the program’s operating budget and coordinating recruiting visits. She also serves as the program's liaison to the athletic department.

In three years at Florida Southern, he helped guide the Mocs to back-to-back NCAA postseason appearances in 2023-24 and 2024-25, including an appearance in the South Region Championship game. Florida Southern posted a 68-28 overall record with St. Lifer on the sideline with a 42-18 mark in league play.
 
St. Lifer, a native of Mountain Lakes, N.J., spent four years as a member of the Florida Southern men's basketball team one as a student manager and three as a player. The 2018 Florida Southern College graduate was a student manager for the 2014-15 NCAA DII National Champion Moccasins before joining the team for the 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 seasons.
 
St. Lifer played in 22 games for the Mocs where he finished his career with 17 points, three rebounds, one assist and one steal. He earned NABC Honors Court following his junior season while also earning Sunshine State Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll twice in his career. He served on the FSC student government as a freshman.
 
Prior to Florida Southern, St. Lifer served as the Director of Basketball Operations at Division I Bryant University for the past two seasons. He completed three years on the staff at Bryant after joining the 2018-19 season as the Director of Basketball Analytics before heading over to Division II Le Moyne College for 2019-20. St. Lifer returned to Bryant for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons.
 
While on staff, the Bulldogs had two of the best seasons in program history. In 2020-21, the Bulldogs went 15-7, entered the mid-major top-25 and advanced to the Northeast Conference Championship. In 2021-22, Bryant won its first-ever NEC Regular Season and Tournament Titles, advancing to the NCAA DI Men's Basketball Championships. While at Le Moyne, St. Lifer helped the Dolphins go 19-9 and advance to the NCAA tournament.
 
St. Lifer spent the summer of 2017 as the Director of Player Development Intern at Green Bay and gained experience as a summer camp coach at Iowa and Georgia Tech while also serving as a summer coach at the Robert Jacobson Sports Foundation and John ByDook Basketball Academy.