Our Coaches
Tim Corrigan
Coach Corrigan founded NJ Celtics in 2020 and has been involved in coaching since 2000. Several current and former Celtics are playing varsity basketball for some of the top high school teams in the area, such as Gill St. Bernard’s, Rutgers Prep, Roselle Catholic, St. Joe’s Metuchen, St. Benedict’s, Scotch Plains-Fanwood, and St. Joseph-by-the-Sea in Staten Island.
He played for St. Joseph’s High School in Metuchen and for Kean University, where he become the school’s 8th all-time leading scorer with 1,232 points.
After college, he went on to play professionally overseas for four years in Norway, Saudi Arabia, and Ecuador. His coaching career began in Norway, coaching a U19 boys team and a women’s semi-pro team. After returning to the US, he served as an assistant coach for two years at his alma mater, Kean University, under his former head coach, Bruce Hamburger.
As his kids became old enough to play the game, he coached CYO and travel basketball for Holy Trinity School and SPF-PAL respectively.
In 2020, he accepted the head girls’ basketball coach position at Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren, where he navigated the team through through two difficult COVID season.
In 2022, Coach Corrigan moved to one of the elite high school girls’ programs in the state, St. Thomas Aquinas in Edison. Through three seasons, the team has a 67-22 record and has been consistently ranked in the Top 20 in New Jersey. All five players who graduated during his tenure are currently playing college basketball, a fact he is very proud of. STA has won the Greater Middlesex Conference Championship every year that he has been there, and Coach Corrigan’s record in the GMC is 54-0.
Coach Corrigan lives in Fanwood with his wife, Allison, and their two children: Elizabeth, an incoming freshman at the University of Notre Dame, and Declan, a rising senior guard at Gill St. Bernard’s and member of the Celtics.
Kerrin Lyles
Coach Lyles has been with the Celtics since 2022. He and Coach Corrigan go way back, having played against each other when Coach Lyles starred at Franklin High School in the early-1990s. Then they were teammates at Kean University, where they served together as co-captains and all-conference players.
He brings a wealth of experience and passion, imparting his knowledge and enthusiasm to the members of the Celtics. Coach Lyles has been coaching youth basketball for the past 10+ years.
Coach Lyles lives in Roselle with his wife, Chanty, and twins sons, Jalen and Jelani, who are incoming freshmen at Roselle Catholics and members of the Celtics. He is also the uncle of world-class sprinters, Noah and Josephus Lyles. Noah won the gold medal at the 2024 Summers Olympics in Paris in the 100 m.
Bill Kilduff
Coach Kilduff is one of the best-known figures in New Jersey basketball circles. He serves as an assistant coach for the boys’ basketball team at Metuchen High School. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at Kean University from 2000-2005 and from 2020-2025.
He also served as an assistant coach at the collegiate level at: Middlesex College (2018-20), FDU-Florham (2017-18), East Stroudsburg (1988-89), Rutgers (1986-88), and St. Peter’s University (1984-86).
Coach Kilduff’s high coaching experience is even more extensive: Head Coach of Randolph (1995-2000, 2008-13), McCorristin Catholic (1994-95), Absegami (1991-93), and Pius X (1989-90). Assistant Coach at: St. Joseph Metuchen (1990-91, 2013-17), Matawan (2006-08), Old Bridge (2005-06), McCorristin Catholic (1993-94), and St. Peter’s New Brunswick (1984-86).
A retired Social Studies teacher, Kilduff graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of St. Thomas-Minnesota in 1975.