Princeton University Athletics
Burke, Dadio Campbell Named Assistant Basketball Coaches
September 27, 2000 | General
Sept. 27, 2000
Rob Burke and Terri Dadio Campbell have been named assistant coaches for the Princeton men's and women's basketball programs.
Burke will join the staff of men's head coach John Thompson, who was a high school teammate of Burke's. Dadio Campbell, whose husband Shawn is the associate head coach of the Temple women's team, will work with the Princeton women.
Burke, who is three days younger than Thompson (both are 34), played with Thompson at Gonzaga College High School in Washington D.C., where both were 1984 graduates. Burke has spent the last three seasons on Paul Hewitt's staff at Siena, where he helped coach the Saints to a 66-27 record. During his tenure as an assistant at Siena, the team played in one NCAA tournament, one NIT and three MAAC tournament championship games. The 1998-99 team finished with an RPI of 40. He also helped recruit three players who made the MAAC's all-rookie team.
Prior to working with Hewitt, who left after last season to become head coach at Georgia Tech, Burke spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount, where he filled in as head coach briefly during the 1996-97 season when head coach John Oliver took a leave of absence. Burke was also an assistant coach at Maryland-Baltimore County from 1989-1994, and he helped recruit and coach three of the school's all-time leading scorers, as well as its career assists leader.
He is a 1988 graduate of Haverford, where he was team MVP and a three-time letterwinner. He is married to the former Michelle Lynn Harris.
Dadio Campbell comes to Princeton from Washington & Lee , where she was the head coach of the women's basketball and women's volleyball teams. Dadio Campbell took over the basketball program during its first varsity season and built it into a consitent performer in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
Dadio Campbell also coached the W&L volleyball team and led the program to four ODAC titles, including the 1999 squad that competed in the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history. She compiled a 159-48 record at W&L and was named the ODAC Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1998.
Dadio Campbell, a 1992 graduate of Lafayette, is a native of Bethlehem, Pa., where she was a standout basketball and volleyball player at Freedom High. She was a four-year starter, and she earned all-league honors in both sports.
Dadio Campbell then continued her basketball career at Lafayette. She earned All-Patriot League honors in both her junior and senior seasons, and she finished her career as the school's third all-time leading scorer with 1,283 points. In addition, she served as team captain for the Leopards as both a junior and a senior and was named the team's MVP in each of those two seasons.
While at Lafayette, Dadio served as a volleyball coach at Freedom. Following her graduation from Lafayette in 1992 she served as an assistant basketball coach at the College of New Jersey for one year. She earned her master's degree in education from TCNJ.