Morgan Allison joined the LIU staff in January 2024, later serving as the interim head coach of the men’s water polo team in August 2024 before being named the head coach of both the men’s and women’s water polo teams in December 2024.
Under Allison’s leadership, the LIU men’s water polo team earned the most wins in program history in the 2024 season, reaching the Northeast Water Polo Conference Championship. Josep Jodra Muñoz represented LIU as an honorable mention on the ACWPC All-America Team.
In the 2025 women’s water polo season, LIU finished in second place of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Red Division, qualifying for the MAAC Water Polo Championships in the process. LIU had four players receive all-conference awards, including senior Sydney deVroedt being named the MAAC co-Offensive Player of the Year and graduate student Elena Camarena and deVroedt both being named unanimous First-Team All-MAAC selections. LIU also posted its fifth consecutive winning season in the spring of 2025 and was consistently ranked in the top 25 by both the Collegiate Water Polo Association and the American Water Polo Association.
Prior to coaching at LIU, Allison was an assistant coach for St. Francis College Brooklyn in the 2022-2023, coaching the Terrier men’s and women’s teams. While with SFC Allison helped the Terrier women’s team reach their best season record since 2009, while the men’s team reached 20 wins for the first time since 2013. Allison assisted with all aspects of the recruiting process, coordinating team travel, supervising practice sessions, and mentoring student-athletes to foster athletic and academic growth.
Ahead of coaching at SFC, Allison coached one season at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn in the 2021-22 academic year. Allison has also coached water polo at Asphalt Green in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
The Perkasie, Pennsylvania native, was a two-sport athlete in the pool, competing for the SFC women’s water polo team as a center defender and a short-distance swimmer on the swimming & diving teams. During her stint as a Terrier, Allison was named the president of SFC’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and was named to multiple MAAC and ACWPC All-Academic Teams, also serving as a team captain on the women’s water polo team. She graduated in 2017 with a degree in communications with a concentration in public relations and advertising and a minor in sports management.
Growing up as a swimmer, Allison began playing water polo when she was in middle school. She played water polo for Princeton Tigers Aquatics Club and Pennridge High School until graduating in 2013.
