New Jersey Belles Coaching Team
U17 High School Teams
Joseph Fagan – Coach High School Team- Fagan
Cindy Fagan – Coach High School Team– Fagan
John Truhan – Coach High School Team- Truhan
John is an outstanding basketball mind and has tremendous desire to win. He is an advocate of the Princeton style of play. His discipline and demanding of the players and staff thru motivational coaching works effectively under pressure which transpires to his successes on the court with all of his teams.
20009-2016: Head Coach Central Regional Girls varsity High school Basketball Team
High School 2023 Team
Ellen Masonius – Director New Jersey Belles Program: Coach 2023 High School
High School 2023 Team
Ellen Masonius – Director New Jersey Belles Program: Coach 2023 Team
Colleen Prior – Coach 2023 Team
Colleen is a current coach a Mid Monmouth where has been coaching since 2013. Colleen is a Spring Lake Mid Monmouth trustee (2016-present) and has thought mathematics at RBC (Red Bank Catholic HS) and RFH (Rumson Fair Haven HS) from 1997 to 2003. During that time she took on the following coaching positions:
- 1997-1999 RBC Assistant Girls Basketball Coach
- 1997-1999 RBC JV Softball Coach
- 1999-2003 RFH Freshman Girls Basketball Coach & Assistant Varsity Coach
- 1999-2002 RFH Varsity Softball Coach
Colleen played at basketball RBC and graduated 1993
2024 Team
Ali Napolitano – Coach 2024
8th Grade-2025 Teams
Bill Shaughnessy – Coach 2025 Team- White
- Played football, basketball and baseball at Clifton High School in Clifton NJ
- Football at Boston College
- 1998-2002-Head Coach Girls Basketball at Colts Neck High School
- New Jersey Belles Coach, Travel Basketball Coach
- Assistant Coach at Manasquan High School Girls Basketball
Glenn Jansen – Coach 2025 Team- Blue
Coach Glenn Jansen is in his third season as the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Donovan Catholic. In his first two seasons at his alma mater the Griffins posted back to back 21 win seasons and were co-divisional champs in 2017-2018. Previously he was the Head Girls Coach at Colts Neck High School for four seasons highlighted by the 2014 Central Jersey Group IV State Sectional Title. He spent the first ten years of his coaching career as a boys assistant to Lou Piccola at Colts Neck.
7th Grade – 2026 Teams
Jenny Greene – Coach 2026 Team- White
Jenny is a middle school teacher in the Carteret School District. She is currently the Head Coach at Carteret Middle School and the Assistant Coach at Carteret High School. Jenny has been coaching travel basketball for 9 years, and she has been a New Jersey Belles coach since 2015. She believes in putting a major emphasis on fundamental skills, teamwork, and fun!
Kathy Foos- Coach 2026 Team – White
Mike Iasparro– Coach 2026 Team – Blue
Justin McGhee- Coach 2026 Team – Blue
JT Truhan- Coach 2026 Team- Maroon/Navy
6th Grade – 2027 Teams
Mark Donnelly – Coach 2027 Team-White
Mark Donnelly has served as Head Coach and Assistant Coach for our 2025 and 2027 New Jersey Belles Teams and has been coaching travel and AAU youth basketball for almost 10 years. Mark played high school basketball at Red Bank Regional and college basketball at Davidson College.
Kat Ernst – Coach 2027 Team- Blue
Trainers/Skill Development
Bob Greene – New Jersey Belles Director of Skill Development
Mike Rice – Skill Development
Coach Rice has 22 years of Division 1 coaching experience. He has coached at Rutgers, Robert Morris, Pittsburgh, St. Joes, Niagara, Chicago State, and Fordham and has been apart of producing over 30 NBA players. He is currently the Head Coach for the nationally recognized AAU program, Team Rio.
Coach Mike Rice recently added 2 years Head Coach at the Patrick School where he won back to back Union Catholic Championship and The New Jersey State Tournament of the Champions, also known as the TOC.
Coach Rice coached from 2016 thru 2018 New Jersey Belles teams along with Ellen Masonius and has trained New Jersey Belles players for the last 3 years. His part in the New Jersey Belles alumni is evident in the scholarships awarded to the first 3 graduating classes for the New Jersey Belles Program.
Coach Rice played collegiately at Fordham University and was a three year captain. He is married to Kerry for 29 years. His son Michael, a Team Rio Alumni, is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and where he was member of the Men’s Basketball Team. His daughter Katie, a New Jersey Belle Alumni, attending Lehigh University and a junior member of the Women’s Basketball Team.