Wide Receivers, Recruiting
Coordinator
Matt Cersosimo returned to the UConn coaching staff in 2006
as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator. Cersosimo previously worked
as a graduate assistant coach with the team and spent the 2004-05 seasons as an
assistant coach at Harvard, helping the Crimson to a 17-3 record over the
combined 2004-05 seasons.
Cersosimo joined the Crimson staff in 2004 as the wide receivers coach and saw
Harvard post an unblemished 10-0 record, 7-0 in Ivy League action. It was
Harvard’s best season since the Crimson went 12-0 in 1901. Wide receivers Brian
Edwards and Cory Mazza were each named All-Ivy. In 2005, his role switched to
running backs coach and junior varsity head coach. The varsity Crimson finished
7-3, including a monumental 30-24 win over ancient rival Yale in triple overtime
in New Haven. Junior running back Clifton Dawson was a unanimous All-Ivy pick
after the season.
Cersosimo
spent the 2002-03 seasons as a graduate assistant coach at UConn, organizing the
defensive scout team and mainly helping with the Husky tackles and tight ends.
The Huskies recorded a 15-9 record during this period, the program’s first two
as a member of the Division I-A classification. Amongst the neophyte independent
I-A program’s highlights over that span were wins over schools from four
different BCS Conferences (ACC – Wake Forest, BIG EAST – Rutgers, Big Ten –
Indiana, Big 12 – Iowa State). In 2003, UConn ranked eighth in the nation in
total offense (477.5- ypg), 10th in passing offense (297.92 ypg) and 17th in
scoring offense (34.0 ppg).
Cersosimo was a two-year starter at defensive back on the Springfield College
football team, receiving the Unsung Hero Award in 2000 and the Coaches Award in
1999. He also received Springfield’s Dual Sport Athlete of the Year Award in
1998. Cersosimo was a two-year lacrosse captain at Springfield College, earning
All-New England honors as a senior. He also served as an assistant lacrosse
coach at Longmeadow High School in Longmeadow, Mass., in 2001 and 2002, in
addition to coaching Springfield’s wide receivers and special teams.
Cersosimo boasts a deep coaching pedigree as his family is well established in
the Connecticut high school ranks. His father, Rob, has served as head coach at
Conard High School since 1984 while his grandfather, Bob McKee, was the head
coach at West Hartford’s Hall High School from 1951 to 1956 before moving to
Conard where he was head coach from 1957-1984.
Cersosimo is a native of West Hartford, Conn. and received a pair of degrees
from Springfield College, an undergraduate degree in 2000 in physical education
and a master’s degree in health education in 2002. Last July, he married the
former Megan Campbell, an All-BIG EAST women’s lacrosse player at UConn who now
serves as the team’s head coach.
