Frank Allocco was born and raised in New Providence, New Jersey. He attended New  Providence H.S. where he was an All State Athlete in three sports, football, basketball and baseball. He was also the Scholar Athlete for the class of 1971.

Upon graduation from high school, he earned a football scholarship to the University of Notre Dame where he participated on the Varsity football and basketball teams. He was a three year letterman in football as a quarterback and was set to be the starting quarterback in his senior year until a separated shoulder curtailed his playing time.

Frank moved to California in 1976, and traveled 15 Western States as the Regional Manager for Barnell Loft Publications. He became involved in youth athletics as a coach in the Saint Agnes CYO program and also served as the Athletic Director for over ten years. He is currently the Vice President of the East Diablo CYO program.

In 1981, he founded the popular Excel in Basketball summer camp which serves as a teaching camp for basketball skills and provides a motivational base for the thousands of youngsters in California and in New Jersey that attend his camp each year.  (For more information on camps, please visit www.excelinbasketball.com)

He has been a featured motivational speaker at corporate sales meetings, business groups and organizations, basketball clinics and camps. His message “The Winning Edge” has been embraced by the thousands of people who have heard his inspirational lectures. In 2002, he was a lead clinician at the Nike All Asia Basketball Clinic in Beijing, China and in 2010 was the featured speaker to the Belgium Basketball Federation.

Mr. Allocco became the Head Basketball Coach at Northgate High School in 1991. Prior to his arrival, Northgate had just 1 winning season in their previous 10 years. In his six year tenure, the Broncos compiled a 167-28 won-lost record. They were the California State Champions in 1995 and were the State Runner-up in 1996. He was named East Bay Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1996.

In May of 1997 he was named the Head Basketball Coach at De La Salle High School in Concord. In fourteen years his teams have won 14 league championships, 8 Section Championships, 4 Regional Championships, and 2 State Championships. They have been to the Final Four of the state nine of the past thirteen years. Coach Allocco was named the National Coach of the year in 2000. In January of 2004, he was recognized as the California Interscholastic Federation North Coast Section Honor Coach for 2003-04. In 2005-06 he was named East Bay Coach of the Year and was the Head Coach at the Michael Jordan All American game at Madison Square Garden. In 2009-10 he was named California State Coach of the Year by the California State Coaches Association and was also selected as the Head Coach of the Academic All-American Game in Los Angeles. In 2011 Coach Allocco was named California State Coach of the Year by Maxpreps. In 2011-12, Coach Allocco was named All Sports National Coach of the Year by Sports Faith International. Coach Allocco is the only coach in California State History to win a State Championship at 2 different schools and is second All-Time in Winning Percentage.