Coaching Experience: Guarascio arrived at NSU August, 2012 as a graduate assistant and was universally praised for his dynamic impact with baseball, softball, football, soccer and volleyball. He designed and implemented weightlifting, plyometric and speed programs and worked extensively with football. He began to serve an internship on the strength and conditioning staff at LSU when NSU’s position opened. In the summer of 2011, he was a strength and conditioning intern at Florida Atlantic, where he worked with football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball.
He was assistant wrestling coach from 2009-11 at Naples (Fla.) High School and coached three state meet qualifiers and a district champion. In the summer of 2010, he worked at Velocity Sports Performance in Naples, where he coached pro football players along with NCAA Division I competitors in football, baseball, soccer, volleyball and basketball. He is a Level 1 Sports Performance Coach for USA Weightlifting and is a certified strength and conditioning coach by the National Strength Coaches Association.
Guarascio was recommended by Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame member and NSU alumnus Coach Gayle Hatch, the head coach of the 2004 USA Olympic Men’s Weightlifting Team, and LSU strength and conditioning coach Tommy Moffitt.
Competitive Career: Guarascio played for the 2009 NAIA national champion football team at Sioux Falls and the 2010 NAIA runner-up. He was a first-team all-conference player in 2008 at College of the Canyons. In high school, he was the Collier County Defensive MVP, all-conference and all-district at Gulf Coast High School in Naples.
Personal: He and wife Heather were married June 23, 2012. He graduated from Sioux Falls with an exercise science degree as a Dean’s List (3.2 GPA) student.
