Athletics Staff

Athletics Office Information
Office Location: G217
Telephone: (708) 974-5727
Spring and Fall Office Hours:
Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Hours vary when classes are not in session. Call for information.
 
Other Student Development Office Hours

Bill Finn, M.A., B.A.
Athletics Director, (708) 974-5213
Office Location: G217
finn@morainevalley.edu
Bill Finn has been Moraine Valley's athletics director since 1983. As the head coach of the college's men's basketball team for 22 years, he tallied a 506-210 career record and enjoyed twenty 20-plus win seasons. He also led his teams to the National Junior College Athletic Association's Division II national tournament four times, finishing in the final four in 1990 and 1999 and in the elite eight in 2001 and 2002. He currently coaches both the men's and women's tennis teams at Moraine Valley. 

Finn earned all-conference honors while playing basketball for Richards High School. He was also team captain for two years at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he earned National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics all-district honors. 

Finn has a bachelor's degree from Loras and a master's degree from Chicago State University.

Geoffrey Davis, B.S.
 Head Trainer/Equipment Manager, (708) 974-5287
Office Location: G114
davisg@morainevalley.edu
Geoffrey Davis is now in his 10th year with the Moraine Valley Athletics Department.

Before coming to the college, Davis was an athletics trainer for the Illinois Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center, assigned to Nazareth Academy in LaGrange Park.

Davis has a bachelor's degree from Southwest Missouri State University.

Gloria Coughlin, B.G.
Athlete Success Coordinator, (708) 974-5211
Office Location: G216
coughlin@morainevalley.edu
Gloria Coughlin is the academic advisor for the Cyclones Athletics program. 

Coughlin, head coach of Moraine Valley's women's volleyball team from 1988-99, tallied a 232-177 career record. She returned to the Cyclones as an assistant coach in 2003, and resumed her head coaching position for the 2004 campaign, posting a 19-15 record.

She also coached the college's men's volleyball team for four years, compiling a 58-12 record and leading the team to Midwest Collegiate Volleyball Association league championships in 1998 and 1999. 

Coughlin, who played collegiate volleyball at Michigan State University, has a bachelor's degree from Governors State University.

Mary Ann Lessner
Athletics Secretary, (708) 974-5727
Office Location: G217
lessner@morainevalley.edu
Mary Ann Lessner has been the Athletics Department secretary for 21 years. 

A volleyball player in high school, Lessner also coached grade school volleyball at Our Lady of the Ridge in Chicago Ridge. 

She always has had a love of sports, and loves working with the Cyclones coaching staff as well as the student athletes she encounters each day.

Mary Przybylski
Department Assistant, (708) 974-5374
Office Location: G217
 

Maura Vizza, B.A., A.A.
Sports Information Coordinator, (708) 974-5742
D114
vizzam@morainevalley.edu
Maura Vizza joined Moraine Valley's College and Community Relations staff in March 2008 as a Public Relations Generalist.

Vizza worked as a newspaper reporter and a college rowing coach before coming to Moraine Valley.

Vizza earned an associate's degree from Moraine Valley, where she played softball, and a bachelor’s degree from Drake University, where she was on the rowing team.