Ed Canner begins his third year as the head coach of the men and women's tennis team after a long history in the Long Island tennis community.

In his second year of tutelage, Canner led the Panthers through a 6-6 overall, 3-3 ECC campaign, finishing fourth in the ECC and winning a total of 39 single sets and 21 doubles. Upon his guidance, Alda Ribeiro finished first at the ECC Flight Tournament, a feat that has not been accomplished at Adelphi since Iku Kunugi in 1993.

In his first year at the helm of the Panthers, Canner helped lead the men's squad to a 13-9 record and their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2003, their second overall in 65 plus years as a program. The women's squad also saw success under the direction of Canner, posting a 5-2 East Coast Conference (ECC) record and coaching Alda Ribeiro to an ECC Rookie of the Year title.

A 1974 graduate of Adelphi University, Canner earned his Master's from Adelphi in 1986. He also obtained a Master's degree from LIU-C.W. Post in 1981 and has spent the last 30 years teaching physical education in Long Beach, New York.

Canner has also managed and instructed at the James J. McCabe tennis facility in Long Beach for the past ten years and prior to that was an instructor at the John A. Anderson Tennis Facility in Rockville Centre, New York.

Canner is currently an adjunct professor in the Physical Education Department at Adelphi University.