Head Coach Brien Cullen enters the 2011 season with a 142-113 overall varsity record (.557).  Coach Cullen is the only coach the Lancers have had since the he brought the program to the varsity level in the fall of 1985.  This season he will take over the reigns of coaching special teams while coaching the offensive line.

In the two years preceding their varsity status, Coach Cullen led the Lancers to a 19-3 overall record including an 11-0 season that earned Worcester State the 1984 National Club Championship.

The program was elevated to NCAA Division III varsity status in 1985 and joined the New England Football Conference.  The Lancers made an immediate impact on New England football finishing 5-0 in their first year.

Cullen's 1987 and 1988 teams won the South Division of the New England Football Conference with 7-2 and 7-3 records, respectively.  1995 was also an outstanding year for the Lancers when they captured the NEFC title for the first time with an 8-0 record and earned their first ECAC post-season playoff bid.  The team finished the season 9-2.

The 1996 team won the NEFC for the second consecutive year.  The Lancers were 8-0 in conference play and 10-0 for the regular season.  The Lancers played an ECAC playoff game with national powerhouse Ithaca College and dropped a tough 27-21 decision to the Bombers.  Worcester State won 19 straight regular season games before dropping the opener in the 1997 season.  Cullen was named the New England Football Writers Division II & III Coach of the Year for his efforts and received the same honor from the Gridiron Club of Boston.

1997 saw the Lancers finish as co-champions of the New England Football Conference (NEFC) giving Worcester State their third straight title and a third straight ECAC post-season playoff game.  They posted an overall record of 8-3, including a 7-1 conference total.

Coach Cullen has been named NEFC Coach of the Year in the 1987, 1993, 1995 and 2000 seasons.  In 1996, The American Football Coaches Magazine named Cullen the Division III National Defensive Coordinator of the Year. The National Football Foundation honored Coach Cullen as a contributor to football in 1997. In 2004 Coach Cullen was honored by the ECAC football officials with the Murray Lewis Award honoring his contributions to football in the region.  He also traveled to England and Scotland in 1998 and was an assistant coach with an All-Star team consisting of players from Division I, II and III.

As an undergraduate at Worcester State, Coach Cullen was a four-year starter for the Lancer club team and was named All-New England his junior and senior years.  As a senior he was the team captain and selected the team's most valuable player

Coach Sullivan enters his fifth season as the defensive coordinator since returning to the team in 2007. This is Coach Sullivan's second tour on the Lancer sideline having coached for Worcester State and Head Coach Brien Cullen from 2000-2001. Coach Sullivan was also promoted to Associate Head Coach in 2007. He will coach the defensive backs this season.

Before coming back to Worcester State, Sullivan had a six year stint as the head coach at Framingham State. Prior to coaching at WSC and FSC, Coach Sullivan began his collegiate career as the offensive coordinator for UMass-Lowell.

Coach Sullivan began his coaching career in 1983 serving as defensive coordinator for Marlboro High School and St. Bernard's. Following that he was a head coach for 10 years most notably at Keefe Tech in Framingham. In 1991 he was named Coach of the Year at Keefe Tech and in 1992 was chosen to coach in the Shriner's All-Star game.  In 1994, while at Ayer High School, Coach Sullivan was on the sidelines for the Central Mass All-Star game.

Coach Sullivan is a 1985 graduate of UMass-Amherst and is currently a history teacher at Wachusett Regional High School.

Coach Gates enters his fourth season as the Lancers quarterback coach and first as the offensive coordinator.

Before coming to Chandler Street, Coach Gates spent three seasons at Fitchburg State coaching quarterbacks in ’04 and ’05 and defensive backs in ’06. In both years that Coach Gates coached the Falcon signal callers, they broke numerous school passing records and also made two appearances in the New England Football Conference Championship game and in ECAC bowl games.

In 2006, Coach Gates enjoyed a run as an assistant coach for the Colorado Crush of the Arena Football League. The Crush made the payoffs and lost to the eventual Arena Bowl champs, the Chicago Rush.

As a player, Coach Gates enjoyed stints playing quarterback with both the Lancers and Falcons. A native of Fitchburg MA, Coach Gates currently resides in Leominster with his wife Sarah, his daughter Daniella and works as a Guidance Counselor for a therapeutic high school in Eastern Massachusetts.

John Smith, a former Worcester State standout as a running back, begins his third year of coaching the Lancers.  

Coach Smith helped lead the first WSC varsity football squad in 1985 to a perfect 5-0 record while in 1987 he also helped lead the charge as the team captured a MASCAC Championship and a NEFC South Division title. Smith currently holds school records for rushes in a season (229) and career rushes (564) while he is second on the all-time list in rushing yards (2,608) and scoring (198). Smith also owns the single game rushing record of 239 yards and he is fourth all-time in all-purpose yardage (3,144).

Coach Smith was a team captain for three straight years while he was named to the NEFC All-Conference football team three times. Smith was also selected as a Pizza Hut All-American honorable mention and he was the recipient of the Hal Chalmers Academic Award, presented to the top student athlete in the NEFC in 1987. Coach Smith was inducted into the Lancer Hall of Fame in 1993.

Chris Nasis returns to Worcester State to coach the wide receivers after having served as an assistant coach in 1998 and again from 2002-04. In addition to having experience coaching wide receivers at the collegiate level, Coach Nasis was the squads strength and conditioning coach in 1998 and he has coached the offensive line and tight ends while at WSU.

Coach Nasis comes to the Lancers after having helped David Prouty reach the Division II Central Mass Super Bowl in 2010 as an assistant coach. From 2006-09, Coach Nasis was the head coach at his alma mater of Bartlett High in Webster.

Coach Nasis was a standout offensive lineman for Worcester State as he was selected as a team captain in 1996 and 1997. Coach Nasis helped the squad post a three-year mark of 27-6 and earn three consecutive berths to the ECAC Division III Championships from 1995-97. In 1996, the Lancers finished the regular season with a perfect 10-0 record.

Brian Boyle begins his first season as the linebackers coach for Worcester State. Boyle was previously at cross-town rival WPI for nine seasons.

As a player at Merrimack, Boyle was a four-year starter at defensive back. After graduation, Boyle coached two seasons for the Warriors. 

A resident of West Boylston, Boyle currently serves as a superintendent for the Methuen Construction Company.  He is married to his wife Bethany and the couple has two daughters, Brooke and Elizabeth.

Coach Varrichione, has been coaching football for over 50 years. This is Coach Varrichione’s second tour with the Lancers having served under Coach Cullen from 1994 through 1999. Among Coach Varrichione’s stops have included stints at Dean College, Framingham State University, Harvard University, UMass-Amherst and high school jobs with Xaverian and Ashland High School where he was head coach.

Coach Varrichione is a graduate of UMass-Amherst and will coach the defensive line this season.