Coach Adam Taraska begins his first year as an assistant at Iona College. He will work with the Pitchers and assist in recruiting for the Geals, who participate in the Division I Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). He moves to Iona after spending 2008 at Caldwell College.

Taraska was a four year starter at 2B/3B at the University of Bridgeport where he captained the Purple Knights squad in 2003 and earned a B.S. in Human Services.  Adam has been a coach with the AAU Team Connecticut Blue Jays for six summers and has been involved in coaching youth baseball since 1999.

In 2002, he was the assistant coach on the 15U Blue Jays team that earned a berth to the National Championship in Kingsport, TN. The following summer he assistant coached a 17U Blue Jays team that finished in the top 10 in the nation at the AAU Nationals in Orlando, FL and won a Triple Crown Connecticut State Championship.
 

He was the head coach of the 15U fall Blue Jays in 2003 and the 13U fall Blue Jays in 2004
that won the '04 Halloween Weekend Classic. In 2005, he was the head coach of the 13U South team that won both the RYO 4th of July tournament on Long Island and the Cerbo World Series in New Jersey . That team also finished 2nd in both the War at the Shore Memorial Day Weekend tournament in East Lyme, CT and the Beaver Valley Campground tournament in Cooperstown, NY.
 

Coach Taraska was the head coach of the 2006 14U South TCB Blue Jays that competed in the AAU National Tournament in Orlando, FL. That team finished 16th nationally in a field of over sixty.Most recently for the Jays, Adam coached the 2007 17U Nationals who won the Silver Consolation Championship at the Fletcher World Series in St. Petersburg, FL , and took home the gold medal at the Nutmeg State Games.Coach Taraska also served in the high school ranks as he was the head varsity coach at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, CT during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. 2006 marked the first time in the program's history there was an appearance in the post-season. In 2007, the Dragons broke the school record for wins in a season.