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Castellitto, Joe
Joe Castellitto
- Title:
- Special Teams Coordinator
Alma Mater: Utica '17
Season at Massachusetts: First
Joe Castellitto joined the UMass football staff in December 2024 as the program's special teams coordinator, after spending the previous two seasons as the special teams coordinator and nickels coach at Dartmouth.
While at Dartmouth, he helped the Big Green to back-to-back Ivy League Championship titles. Castellitto coached the 2024 Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Year in Owen Zalc, while seeing two players earn spots on the First and Second Team All-Conference lists. In 2024, his special teams unit lead the Ivy League in PFF ranking (90) and graded fifth in all of FCS.
Prior to Dartmouth, Castellitto was a member of the UConn staff for three years, serving as a defensive graduate assistant for the 2020 season while working with the defensive backs, before being promoted to the outside linebackers, as well as the interim quality control coach for the 2021 season. He was promoted once again for the 2022 season to a defensive analyst role with the linebackers. In that year with the Huskies, he aided the program to its first bowl game in seven years, the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
Castellitto also spent time as the outside linebackers coach and run game coordinator at Central Connecticut State for the 2019 season. The Blue Devils finished the year ranked 22nd in the country with an 11-2 record and an undefeated mark in the Northeast Conference (NEC) to win the league title. He coached two linebackers to All-NEC honors, with the defense as a whole ranking first in the nation in interceptions and defensive touchdowns, and second in run defense and turnover margin.
Castellitto spent the spring of 2019 as an inside linebackers coach at Western Connecticut State and began his coaching career as a defensive graduate assistant for two season at his alma mater, Utica College. He helped the Pioneers to a win at the Scotte Whitelaw Bowl in 2018.
A four-year leadership council member at Utica as an undergraduate, Castellitto played multiple positions on defense and special teams. He was a three-time Empire 8 All-Academic Team honoree.
Originally from Mahopac, New York, Castellitto earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science in 2017 and his master's in special education at Utica in 2018.
Season at Massachusetts: First
Joe Castellitto joined the UMass football staff in December 2024 as the program's special teams coordinator, after spending the previous two seasons as the special teams coordinator and nickels coach at Dartmouth.
While at Dartmouth, he helped the Big Green to back-to-back Ivy League Championship titles. Castellitto coached the 2024 Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Year in Owen Zalc, while seeing two players earn spots on the First and Second Team All-Conference lists. In 2024, his special teams unit lead the Ivy League in PFF ranking (90) and graded fifth in all of FCS.
Prior to Dartmouth, Castellitto was a member of the UConn staff for three years, serving as a defensive graduate assistant for the 2020 season while working with the defensive backs, before being promoted to the outside linebackers, as well as the interim quality control coach for the 2021 season. He was promoted once again for the 2022 season to a defensive analyst role with the linebackers. In that year with the Huskies, he aided the program to its first bowl game in seven years, the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
Castellitto also spent time as the outside linebackers coach and run game coordinator at Central Connecticut State for the 2019 season. The Blue Devils finished the year ranked 22nd in the country with an 11-2 record and an undefeated mark in the Northeast Conference (NEC) to win the league title. He coached two linebackers to All-NEC honors, with the defense as a whole ranking first in the nation in interceptions and defensive touchdowns, and second in run defense and turnover margin.
Castellitto spent the spring of 2019 as an inside linebackers coach at Western Connecticut State and began his coaching career as a defensive graduate assistant for two season at his alma mater, Utica College. He helped the Pioneers to a win at the Scotte Whitelaw Bowl in 2018.
A four-year leadership council member at Utica as an undergraduate, Castellitto played multiple positions on defense and special teams. He was a three-time Empire 8 All-Academic Team honoree.
Originally from Mahopac, New York, Castellitto earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science in 2017 and his master's in special education at Utica in 2018.
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