Bruce Tallon

Bruce Tallon is in his 12th year as the head women's basketball coach during the 2015-16 season.

Tallon led SUNY Canton to a winning season during the 2012-13 season with a 12-9 record that began with a great win over local rival Clarkson University. 

In 2010-11 Tallon was named the Sunrise Conference Coach of the Year for the second time.  The Roos advanced to the championship game of the Sunrise Conference tournament for the second time in the past four years.

In SUNY Canton's first year in the NAIA and Sunrise Conference in 2007, Tallon guided the Roos to the regular season championship and was named co-Coach of the year with Missy West.  That was the third time Tallon has received a Coach of the Year Award as he received the same honor from the Mid-State Athletic Conference and Region III when he was head coach at the former Mater Dei College.

Tallon began the women's basketball program at Mater Dei in Ogdensburg and built the program into an NJCAA Region III powerhouse. He won over 150 games during his tenure with the Crusaders and sent numerous players on to four-year colleges and coached several junior college All-Americans. Tallon twice led Mater Dei to the Region III, Division II finals and in 1995 he was named Region III Coach of the Year.

Following the closure of Mater Dei, Tallon was an assistant coach with the women's basketball team at SUNY Canton for two years and then joined the women's basketball program at St. Lawrence University as an assistant coach. In his first season at SLU he helped guide the Saints into the Division III National Championship game and the next year helped them go undefeated in the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association and gain another berth in the national tournament.

Prior to coaching in college, Tallon started the girl's basketball program at Long Lake High School where he also coached boy's basketball and girl's softball.

Tallon received an associate's degree in applied science from Cobleskill College, a bachelor's degree in business education from Castleton State College in Vermont, and he did graduate work at SUNY Plattsburgh, the United States Sports Academy, Albany State College, and Azusa Pacific College.

Tallon also works at the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club and coordinates activities and events between the club and the SUNY Canton athletic department.

In addition to his Coach of the Year awards Tallon has also received a New York State Service Award for 30 plus years of coaching.

Tallon lives in Morristown with his wife Rose.