Coaching Staff
Dustin Javis | Bench Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Following five years as a member of the Golden Falcon baseball staff, Dustin Javins (JAY-vihns) was promoted by Felician University to the full-time position of Assistant Baseball Coach/Athletics Coordinator in July 2022. He maintained his roles as bench coach and recruiting coordinator under head coach Chris Langan, while also taking over responsibility for the junior varsity baseball team. During each fall semester, Javins assists the Athletics Department with day-to-day facilities and operations necessities.
Javins joined Felician as the baseball pitching coach and recruiting coordinator in August 2017 after spending three years in the same two roles at Rowan College at Burlington County. He transitioned to bench coach prior to the 2019 campaign. The Golden Falcons have captured three Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Division titles and reached the 2019 NCAA Division II Tournament during his tenure.
Javins helped guide RCBC to the NJCAA Region 19 playoffs each season from 2015 to 2017. He was also the head coach of the Monmouth Monarchs of the ABC Collegiate League in the summer of 2017.Dustin Javins & family.
Javins graduated from fellow CACC member Dominican (N.Y.) College in 2012 with a B.A. degree in social sciences. In three seasons as a pitcher for the Chargers, he posted a 15-7 won-lost record, five saves, a 2.96 earned-run average, and 188 strikeouts in helping Dominican earn the 2010 CACC championship and two NCAA East Regional berths.
Javins was a Florida all-state pitcher/shortstop at Cooper City High in Broward County, batting a state-best .527 as a senior in 2007. After graduating from Dominican, he played two professional seasons for the Roswell Invaders and Raton Osos of the independent Pecos League.
Javins resides in Forked River with his wife, Rachel, son, Jaxson, and daughter, Emerson.
Steve Langan | Hitting/Third Base Coach
Steve Langan returned for his second stint on the Felician baseball coaching staff in August 2017. He helped guide the Golden Falcons to CACC South Division regular season crowns in 2018 and 2019. Felician was the conference runner-up in 2018 and reached the NCAA East Regional on an at-large basis the following season.
Stephen and Steve LanganLangan previously served as a Golden Falcon assistant from 2002-2012 -- the first two years under Steve Svenson, and the next nine as the batting and infield instructor and third-base coach for his twin brother, Chris Langan. In his first year on staff, the Golden Falcons hit .340 as a team, still the program record. With Langan running the offense from the third-base coaching box, Felician stole a school-record 123 bases in 2006 while making its first trip to the CACC finals. The next season, the Golden Falcons batted .313 with a record 48 home runs and 109 steals.
Langan was an all-state honoree at Keyport High School. He and Chris helped the Red Raiders to a state championship in their junior season. Collegiately, he was a standout performer at shortstop at Bloomfield College before transferring to Kean University, where an injury ended his collegiate career. However, Langan was a non-roster invitee to the Kansas City Royals' major-league spring training in 1999.
Langan earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice/sociology from Kean in 1998. He is the founder and owner of the Langan Baseball training facility in Ocean Township. He and his son, Stephen J., live in Manalapan.
Mike Atan | Volunteer Assistant - Outfield
Longtime Long Island baseball mentor Mike Atan joined the Felician University staff as a volunteer assistant coach in August 2019. He had just served one season in a similar position at Queens (N.Y.) College.
Atan joined the Golden Falcons with more than a decade of college coaching experience. Prior to Queens, he spent eight years as an assistant coach at SUNY-Old Westbury. He began his tenure with the Panthers by coaching first base and with player development responsibiity of the outfielders. He later took on the tasks of coordinating recruting and the defensive spray chart and serving as the bench coach.
Atan began his collegiate coaching career with a stint at Suffolk Community College from 2008 to 2010.
Since 2018, Atan has been the general manager for Long Island Baseball, based in Bellmore, N.Y. In that role, he coordinates three college summer teams. He is a veteran of the travel ball and collegiatate summer league circuits since 2003, and was GM of the New York Cardinals squad that captured the 2013 NACBL championship.
Atan spent 28 years as a corrections officer for the New York Department of Corrections in Queens before retiring in 2015. He lives in West Islip, N.Y.