Dr. Eslinger oversees the entire athletic department at CCSC, including all varsity sports, WAM classes, the SSID, and the intern program. He received his Doctorate of Education in Counseling and Sport Psychology from Boston University in 2002. While there, he helped create Top Game, a sport consulting group that works with student-athletes on mental and physical aspects of performance. He was also the head coach of the Boston University Academy boys basketball team and cross training club as well as the assistant golf coach.
In the fall of 2002, he was named the top assistant coach for
MIT Men's Basketball and has since been promoted to associate head coach. With Eslinger on staff, the program has accumulated 90 wins in six years, won a record breaking 21 games during the 2005-06 season, earned the 2006 Kainan University International Tournament
Championship in Taiwan, developed two NEWMAC rookies of the year and produced two
ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America and d3hoops.com All-America. (Mike D'Auria of Newton, Mass and Jimmy Bartolotta of Littleton, Colo). He was selected as the head coach of the NEBCA all-start game in 2008.
Eslinger is a 1997 graduate of Clark University, where he competed on the men's basketball team and graduated with a B.A. in psychology. Before Clark, "Dr. WAM" attended and played ball at Bethlehem Central High School just outside of Albany, NY. He fell in love with sports while growing up in Sooner country, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Eslinger has been an adjunct faculty member in psychology at Lasell College and the University of New Hampshire, a consultant for the Women's World Cup, a thesis editor for Excelsior College, and served as director of the MIT Summer Day Camp and
Crossover Sports Camp in Shanghai, China. This past summer, he worked at the
Matt Lottich Life Skills Basketball Camp in San Carlos, CA. In addition to teaching classes, he is thrilled to oversee the development of the CCSC Athletics Program and the Student Sports Information Department. Click here for
his webpage.