Support Staff - UConn Huskies

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Jon Dahlquist
Director of Football Operations
Jon Dahlquist returned to the UConn football
staff in February of 2006 and he embarks on his second
season as the program’s director of football operations.
Dahlquist worked as an operations and recruiting
assistant at UConn throughout his academic
career, learning the trade from former UConn
Director of Football Operations Don Corzine, who is now a scout for the NFL’s
Arizona Cardinals. From 2001-05, Dahlquist extensively helped Corzine in
areas of UConn’s operations ranging from team travel to the organization of
recruiting visits. He was involved with the large logistical operations behind the
team’s week-long stay in Detroit for the 2004 Motor City Bowl, the program’s
first-ever bowl trip.
In the spring of 2005, Dahlquist worked in Tampa with the operations
branch of NFL Europe’s Berlin Thunder as they prepared for their upcoming
season. He managed all daily football operations during the team’s camp, ranging
from room assignments to bus schedules to meal counts. He helped make
passport arrangements for Thunder players and managed league financial matters,
including player per diem and reimbursements.
Dahlquist volunteered during the fall of 2005 as the Football Operations
Director at the College of the Holy Cross in his native Worcester, Mass. He
coordinated aspects of the Crusaders’ team travel, organized recruiting receptions
and assisted in community service events.
He also gained experience
while an undergraduate in Storrs
as a manager for the UConn men’s
basketball team from 1999-2002
and played on the school’s club
men’s lacrosse team. Dahlquist
was a two-year team captain and
was named All-Pioneer League as
both a junior and senior. He was
also active off-campus during his
undergraduate years, serving as an
intern in the development office
at the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame and as a
marketing intern for the AHL’s
Hartford Wolf Pack.
Dahlquist received two
degrees from UConn, a bachelor’s
degree in education in May of
2003 and a master’s degree in education
in May of 2005. He resides
in Mansfield, Conn.
Andy Baylock
Director of UConn Football Alumni
and Community Affairs
A member of the Division of Athletics staff
since 1964, Andy Baylock is in his fifth year as the
football program’s Director of Football Alumni and
Community Affairs. Baylock is involved with a number
of activities, including the cultivation of relationships
with Husky football alumni (players, coaches
and support staff) and other various members of the football community.
Baylock serves as the team’s liaison both to professional scouts and the
Connecticut high school coaches, while also assisting the team’s departing seniors
with career networking, representing UConn at various speaking engagements,
and involving current student-athletes with community service projects.
Baylock retired as UConn’s head baseball coach in May 2003 after a 24-
year run in which he posted a 556-492-8 record, guiding the Huskies to BIG
EAST Championships in 1990 and 1994, along with a trio of NCAA tournament
berths. Including his tenure as an assistant baseball coach, Baylock compiled
an 822-614-11 record over 39 years and, at the time of his retirement, he
had personally coached 1,447 of the 2,327 games (62.2 percent) in UConn’s
baseball history.
His association with UConn began in 1963 as the freshman baseball
coach, a part-time position, and Baylock joined the Husky staff on a full-time
basis a year later as an assistant football and baseball coach — positions which
he held for 15 seasons. Baylock was a part of Husky football teams that won or
shared four Yankee Conference titles. He also had a long tenure as UConn’s
freshman football coach. Baylock was an assistant baseball coach from 1964-79,
helping UConn to the College World Series in 1965, 1972 and 1979, before
assuming the head coaching reigns in 1980.
Over the years, Baylock has been honored by several organizations, capped
by his January 1996 induction into the American Baseball Coaches Hall of
Fame, one of the seven Hall of Fames in which he has been enshrined. Baylock
has been active on the international baseball scene as a distinguished pitching
clinician, including serving as pitching coach for the 1985 and 1989 U.S. Senior
National Teams. A veteran summertime coach in the prestigious Cape Cod
Baseball League, Baylock has also sat on the faculty of the department of kinesiology
at UConn.
Baylock also served as the head football coach at East Catholic High
School in Manchester from 1962-64 when he became a full-time member of the
UConn staff. He played three seasons of professional football, last with the
Springfield (Mass.) entry in the Atlantic Coast Professional Football League.
A native of New Britain, Conn. where he played on New Britain High
School’s 1955 state championship team, Baylock is a 1960 graduate of Central
Connecticut where he was a four-year letterwinner in both football and baseball
and captained both teams. There he received the Gladstone Award, CCSU’s
highest award presented to a scholar-athlete. Baylock earned a master’s degree
from the University of Michigan in 1962 where he served as a graduate assistant
baseball coach. Baylock and his wife, Barbara, reside in Mansfield Center,
Conn., and have three children, Jennifer, Jeffrey and Andrea, all of whom
attended UConn. The couple also has one grandson, Kyle.
Jon Wholley
Offensive Graduate Assistant
A former Husky running back, Jon Wholley
begins his second season as UConn’s offensive graduate
assistant coach. In this role, he coordinates the
defensive scout team and analyzes game films of
UConn’s opponents. In UConn’s brief time as a
Division I-A level program, Wholley is the third former
Husky player to also serve the team as a graduate
assistant, joining former GAs Joe Villapiano and Jeff Larson.
Wholley spent the 2005 season as an offensive assistant at Central
Connecticut working with the Blue Devils’ offense and the tight ends in particular.
He went to New Britain after completing his Husky career in 2004, earning
his lone varsity letter that season after appearing in five games. Wholley
came to UConn as a walk-on but earned a scholarship through his hard work.
He played in a total of 12 games at UConn after transferring from Wagner
College, where he played in all but two games as a freshman in 2000. Prior to
UConn, he was an All-Conference and All-Hartford Courant pick as he led
Southington High School to the state championship as a junior in 1998.
A native of Southington, Conn., Wholley earned a bachelor’s degree in
political science from UConn in December of 2004. He is presently pursuing a
master’s degree in sports management from UConn. Wholley resides in
Mansfield, Conn.
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Tim Cary
Defensive Graduate Assistant
Tim Cary embarks on his first season as a graduate
assistant at UConn in 2007. In this role, he
coordinates the offensive scout team and analyzes
game films of UConn’s opponents to assist the team’s
defensive coaching staff.
Cary comes to Storrs after spending the 2006
season as the assistant defensive backs coach at
Fordham and the spring of 2007 as the outside linebackers coach. In 2006, Cary
directed the Rams offensive scout team, assisted with coaching defensive backs,
recruited Nassau County and parts of California and even served as the team’s
video coordinator. He spent the 2005 season performing many of the same
duties at Central Connecticut as a defensive graduate assistant.
A native of Watertown, Conn., and graduate of Watertown High School,
Cary received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fairfield University in
2005. He played cornerback for the Stags for two years before the school discontinued
the program. He is presently pursuing a master's degree in sports administration
from UConn and resides in Mansfield, Conn.
Carl Kotz
Recruiting Assistant
Carl Kotz joined the staff in May of 2006 as the
team’s first recruiting assistant. Kotz helps manage
the recruiting database, organize on-campus visits
and serve as the program’s link to CyberSports, a
company that works with UConn on its web-based
recruiting materials.
Kotz previously worked at Clemson where he
served as a graduate assistant in recruiting and football operations for the spring
2006 semester. He helped coordinate special events for the Tigers in this time,
including Junior Day and the team’s annual Ladies Clinic. Kotz coordinated the
state-side training camp operations for the Cologne Centurions of NFL Europe
in the spring of 2005. He served as the Team Travel and Salary Cap Coordinator
for the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2003-05. In that role, he was responsible for
organizing team travel, free agent visits, pre-draft player visits and training camp
operations, along with performing salary cap research.
Born in Ogdensburg, N.Y. but a graduate of Hugh C. Williams High
School in Canton, N.Y., Kotz originally enrolled at Nichols State to play football.
After suffering an injury, Kotz transferred to Clemson, earning his bachelor’s
degree in parks, recreation and tourism management from the school in
2003, graduating cum laude. As a student assistant in the Clemson football
office, Kotz helped with football operations, recruiting and special events while
also serving as an assistant coordinator of the Tommy Bowden Football Camp.
Kotz resides in Vernon, Conn.
Jerry Martin
Strength and Conditioning
Coordinator
Jerry Martin is in his 18th year at the University
of Connecticut. He coordinates workout activities for
all of UConn’s 24 varsity teams, including the immediate
direction of the strength and conditioning program
for the Husky football team.
He is a certified Level I coach from the United States Weightlifting
Federation and is also certified by the National Strength and Conditioning
Association (NSCA). Martin was a finalist for the NSCA National Strength
Coach of the Year in both 1994 and 2001. He has also served as the head
strength coach for the USA national field hockey team that won the bronze
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Martin is a 1978 graduate of Syracuse with a degree in psychology, who
later earned a second degree from Syracuse in social work in 1980. He earned
his master’s in exercise testing and training from UConn in 1986 and has since
done doctoral course work in exercise physiology. He was a four-year member of
the Orangemen football team where he played alongside Randy Edsall. Prior to
coming back to Connecticut in 1990, Martin spent three years as the strength
coach at Yale University.
A native of East Eden, N.Y., Martin and his wife, Diane, currently reside
in Willington, Conn., with their two daughters, Kristina (20) and Rachele (18).
Drew Wilson
Assistant Strength and Conditioning
Coordinator
Drew Wilson is in his second year as assistant
strength and conditioning coach at UConn. In his
role, Wilson works alongside Jerry Martin to ensure
that UConn’s football players are some of the country’s
most physically fit, both in terms of strength and
anaerobic conditioning.
Wilson came to UConn after spending a year and a half at Kansas. While
at KU, Wilson worked primarily with the Jayhawk football and women’s golf
teams, while also implementing programs for the school’s renowned men’s basketball
team. Prior to KU, Wilson worked as an assistant strength and conditioning
coach at Florida State, assisting with the Seminole football, baseball and
track and field teams during the fall of 2004 after spending the previous summer
interning at Auburn.
Wilson spent three years at Springfield College from 2001-04 as both a
graduate assistant and intern where he also taught undergraduate courses. He
also worked as an intern at King’s College as an undergraduate. He also played
football at King’s College where he was a south regional All-Star, team co-captain
and a preseason All-America pick in 1999. He also won several academic
awards.
A native of Yardley, Pa. and a graduate of Pennsbury High School, Wilson
is a certified USAW Level I coach. He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice
and sociology from King’s College in 2000 and a master’s degree in strength
and conditioning from Springfield College in 2004. Wilson now resides in
Manchester, Conn. with his wife, Marguerite.
Dr. Jeff
Anderson
Director of Sports Medicine
Dr. Jeff Anderson is in his 14th year as Director
of Sports Medicine at Connecticut, overseeing an
operation that administers to the daily needs of nearly
600 intercollegiate athletes representing 24 male
and female athletic teams.
Anderson is certified by the American Board of Family Practice and is a
member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and the American
College of Sports Medicine. He presently serves as an Assistant Clinical
Professor of Family Medicine at the UConn Health Center where he teaches
UConn medical students and residents. He also serves as the Medical Director
for the Human Performance Laboratory in the Neag School of Education’s
Department of Kinesiology.
Anderson earned his medical degree in June 1990 from the University of
Michigan medical school after earning his undergraduate degree in chemistry
from North Park College in Chicago in May of 1986.
A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., Anderson and his wife, Christine, reside
in Tolland, Conn., with their two sons, Erik (14) and Luke (9).
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Bob Howard
Head Athletic Trainer
Bob Howard is entering his 19th year at
UConn and currently oversees the entire athletic
training staff at Connecticut for all sports. The 2007
season will mark his 19th working directly with the
Husky football team.
Howard is a 1988 graduate of Connecticut with
a degree in sport medicine and athletic training. He
later earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology from UConn in 1991.
Howard still spends time in the classroom, teaching students in the UConn athletic
training program. He is a past president of the Connecticut Athletic
Trainers Association and is the former public relations chairman for the National
Athletic Trainers Association’s District I. In 2004, Howard received the
Outstanding Kinesiology Award from UConn’s Neag School of Education and,
in 2006, he received the Athletic Trainer of the Year Award from the
Connecticut chapter of NATA. He also was given a NATA Service Award during
the organization’s 2006 convention in Atlanta.
Howard served as a student trainer at UConn from 1986-88 and as a graduate
assistant trainer from 1988 to 1989. He also worked two pre-season training
camps for the NFL’s New York Jets.
Howard spent much of his youth in Urbandale, Iowa, before moving to
Tolland, Conn. He and his wife, Stephanie, reside in Tolland, Conn., with their
two daughters, Emily (12) and Nicole (10).
Brian Gallagher
Assistant Athletic Trainer
A familiar face to the program after working
with the team as a graduate assistant, Brian Gallagher
returned to the UConn football team in June of 2006
as a full-time athletic trainer. Gallagher aides Bob
Howard with the team’s injury care, prevention and
rehabilitation, while also helping to supervise a staff
of five athletic training students.
Gallagher spent the 2005-06 year at Trinity College in Hartford where he
worked with a half-dozen Bantam teams. He served as a graduate assistant trainer
at UConn from 2003-05, spending the 2003-04 year with the Husky field
hockey and women’s lacrosse programs and the 2004-05 season working with
the UConn football team as it made its historic march to the Motor City Bowl.
Gallagher also gained experience as a student trainer at West Chester University
and Ursinus College, including a season of work with West Chester’s football
program in 2002. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association.
A native of Archbald, Pa., Gallagher earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic
training with a health sciences minor from West Chester in 2003 and a master’s
in kinesiology from UConn in 2005. Gallagher resides in Mansfield, Conn.
Chris Stasaitis
Assistant Equipment Manager
Chris Stasaitis is in his fifth season working on
a full-time basis with the UConn football equipment
staff and his 11th overall in UConn athletics. Stasaitis
coordinates and oversees all phases of the football
team’s equipment operations.
Stasaitis began working in the UConn equipment
room as a sophomore and spent the majority of
his four undergraduate years assisting with football matters. He continued to
work in the equipment room as a graduate assistant for two years while working
towards his master’s degree before being promoted to a full-time position during
the summer of 2003 and later assuming his current role in 2005. Stasaitis
also gained professional experience as an undergraduate by spending summers
working in a variety of capacities for the Northern League’s Waterbury Spirit in
1999 and the Atlantic League’s Bridgeport Bluefish in 2001. He is a certified
member of the Athletic Equipment Managers Association.
Stasaitis earned a bachelors degree in Sports Marketing from UConn in
2001 and in 2003 completed his master’s degree in Sports Management from
UConn. A native of Waterbury, Conn., and a graduate of Sacred Heart High
School, Stasaitis resides in Storrs, Conn.
David Kaplan
Director of Video Services
David Kaplan is entering his 13th year at
UConn where he oversees all aspects of the day-today
video operations for the UConn Division of
Athletics, including football, while also producing
several annual highlight and recruiting tapes. He produces
the audio and video board on game days at
Rentschler Field and is also in charge of the football
team’s weekly film exchange. Kaplan joined the UConn staff in 1995 after serving
as the assistant video director for three years at the United States Military
Academy.
Kaplan also served as video director for the New York/New Jersey Knights
of the World League of American Football, the Connecticut Coyotes and
Cincinnati Rockers of the Arena Football League and at Wagner College in
Staten Island, N.Y. He also spent time as a video assistant with the NFL’s New
York Giants.
Kaplan attended the University of Northern Colorado and earned a degree
from the Institute of Audio and Visual Research in New York City. He is a
founding member of the Collegiate Sports Video Directors’ Association. Kaplan
is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. and currently resides in Tolland, Conn. He has a
son, Bobby (15) and a daughter, Kelsey (13).
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Michael Holmes
Assistant Director of Video Services
Michael Holmes is entering his third year with
the UConn video services staff where he serves as the
primary liaison for the football program. Holmes is
involved in all day-to-day video operations, including
the coordination of the student staff that tapes all
practices and games, along with personally compiling
opponent scouting breakdowns for the UConn
Prior to coming to UConn, Holmes served as a graduate assistant video
coordinator at Washington State University, where he worked with the Cougar
football program for the 2003 and 2004 seasons. He went to Pullman after
working as a student assistant at Baylor, where he worked with many different
sports, including two years with the football team.
Holmes earned a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Baylor in
2003 and a master’s degree in communications from Washington State in 2005.
A native of West Milford, N.J., who attended high school in Edmond, Okla.,
Holmes presently resides in Manchester, Conn.
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Joanne Fazio
Administrative Assistant to the Head
Coach
Joanne Fazio enters her fourth season as a member
of the Connecticut football staff and serves as the
administrative assistant to head coach Randy Edsall.
In her role, Fazio coordinates much of Edsall’s schedule,
and is heavily involved in the logistics of the
team’s annual awards banquet and coordinates the
parents’ activities on game day.
Fazio is a native of Pittsburgh who later lived in Palm Beach Garden, Fla.
for 20 years. She presently resides in Glastonbury, Conn. with her husband Pete
and sons Michael (21), a UConn senior, and Paul (18).
Rebecca
Dunstan
Football Administrative Assistant -
Recruiting
Adolph, Dave Akron 1965-68
Ambrose, Rob Towson State 2002-current
Amendola, Buddy Connecticut 1963
Baylock, Andy Central Connecticut 1964-78
Bertero Jr., Charles Miami, Fla. 1973-76
Bevell, Darrell Wisconsin 1998-99
Briggs, Kent Western Carolina 2001
Burns, Russ Springfield College 1980-88
Casciola, Robert Princeton 1969-70
Cersosimo, Matt Springfield College 2006-current
Chapman, John Dartmouth 1955-63
Collis, Jim Springfield College 1985-91
Covault, Sam Miami, Ohio 1983-84
Davis, Jemal Connecticut 1997-98
Davis, Richard Central Oklahoma 1994
DeGuglielmo, Dave Boston University 1997-98
Doherty, Kevin Tufts 1999-2000
Draganac, Dick Indiana 1980-81
Dunne, Rusty Southern Conn. 1989-91
Fela, Scott Southwestern (KS) College 1989
Fitch, Todd Ohio Wesleyan 1994-98
Foley, Mike Colgate 2006-current
Franks, Jerry Frostburg State 2001
Giannelli, Joe Western Maryland 1966-80
Giguere, Ray Connecticut 1987
Gonzaga, Adam Azusa Pacific 1998
Gray, Torrian Virginia Tech 2002-03
Hall, J.D. Bethune Cookman 2000-01
Hargreaves, Vernon Connecticut 1985-87, 89-97
Harris, Robert Purdue 1976
Holtz, Lou Kent State 1964-65
Hudson, Greg Notre Dame 1994-96
Hughes, Hank Springfield College 2001-current
Rebecca Dunstan is starting her third season as
the football team’s program assistant for recruiting. In
her role with the program, Dunstan assists in the
team’s recruiting efforts by maintaining the extensive
database, coordinating the schedule of mailings to prospects including NLI’s,
and coordinating the day-to-day functions of the football office including supervising
the staff of student workers.
Prior to joining the football program, Dunstan worked in the UConn
Admissions Office from 2001-05, mainly working with the support staff for
incoming freshmen. Dunstan graduated from Eastern Connecticut State
University in 2000 with a degree in psychology. A native of Willington, Conn.,
she resides in Storrs, Conn. with her husband, Shane.
Annie Peppard
Football Administrative Assistant -
Operations
Annie Peppard is in her second season as the
football team’s program assistant for operations. In
her role with the program, Peppard coordinates travel
for the coaching staff and assists the Director of
Football Operations with team travel logistics.
Peppard also assists with team operations on game
days at Rentschler Field and in the day-to-day functions of the football office.
Peppard also assists Andy Baylock in his alumni relations efforts, including the
maintenance of the program’s alumni database.
Prior to arriving in Storrs, Peppard worked as a graduate assistant under
the Associate A.D. for Internal Operations at St. John’s from 2004-06. She graduated
from the Jamaica, N.Y. school with a bachelor’s degree in finance and
sports management in 2004 and earned an MBA from St. John’s in executive
management in 2006. A native of Putnam Valley, N.Y., Peppard presently
resides in Vernon, Conn.
CONNECTCUT ASSISTANT COACHES (SINCE 1953)
Name Alma Mater Years Name Alma Mater Years Name Alma Mater Years
Jackson, Tom Penn State 1978-82
Jenkins, Scott Connecticut 1988
Johanningmeier, Richard Southwestern Missouri 1974-75
Johnson, Lyndon Connecticut 1999-current
Kelin, Seymour “Red” Montclair State 1968-75
Kelley, Mike Notre Dame 1995-98
Kemp, Mike Notre Dame 1988
Koegel, Warren Penn State 1992-97
Kopp, Thomas Connecticut 1966-70
Krot, John Connecticut 1984-91
Kusleika, John Laverne 1994
Lakatos, Scott Western Conn. 2004-current
Landini, Larry Juniata College 1977-79
Landis, George Penn State 1992-93
Laughlin, Phil Springfield College 1990, 92
Leonard, Frank Central Connecticut 1990-93
Loika, Bill St. Benedict’s 1953-63, 82-83
Loney, Steve Iowa State 1994
Marino, Vinny Connecticut 2002-05
Masella, Tom Wagner 1998
McCarthy, Mike Connecticut 1983
McManus, Jerry Wake Forest 1985-86
McMichael, Dave Bowling Green 2001-current
McNulty, John Penn State 1995-97
Moynihan, Dennis Connecticut 1994-96
Muha, Mike Connecticut 1983-84
Mullen, Jeffrey Connecticut 1978-79
Nicolau, Dr. Anthero Southern Conn. 1971-72
O’Connor, Michael West Chester 1978-79
Orlando, Todd Wisconsin 1999-current
Osur, Nate Springfield College 1962-66
Palmer, Christopher J. Southern Conn. 1974
Panciera, Larry Rhode Island 1953-70
Park, Thom West Chester 1977
Paterno, Jay Penn State 1993
Pletcher, Jim Delaware 1983-84
Prescott, Spencer Villanova 1994-98
Rapone, Nick Virginia Tech 1995-98
Reilly, Dick Dayton 1977-82
Richardson, Terry Syracuse 1999-current
Rivers, Leonard Springfield College 1970-72
Roberts, Donnie Kutztown 1999-2000
Robichaud, Steve Springfield College 1990-93
Robinson, Desmond Pittsburgh 1983-86
Rodis, Nick Harvard 1954-61
Royer, H. Lee West Chester 1964
Rutigliano, Sam Tulsa 1964-65
Sekanovich, Daniel Tennessee 1964-66
Sheehan, Joe Connecticut 1997
Simmons, Michael Upper Iowa 1979
Snow, Cliff Central Connecticut 1996-98
Spagnuolo, Steve Springfield College 1987-91
Swann, Paul North Carolina A&T 1973-76
Thompkins, Jamie Connecticut 1984
Thompson, Donald Connecticut 1977-81
Toop, Mike U.S. Merchant Marine 1999-2000
Usher, Brian Connecticut 1982-89
Walton, Ted Connecticut 1987-93
Ward, Stan Canisius 1953
Warner, Dave Syracuse 1999-2000
Weiss, Robert Tufts 1969-72
White, Paul Michigan 1953-54
Wigton, George Ohio State 1957-62
Williams, Greg NC State 1992-94
Wilson, Norries Minnesota 1999-2005
Zimmerman, David Rutgers 1973
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