ITHACA, N.Y. -- Guido Falbo has been named assistant football coach it was announced recently by David Archer, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football. Falbo will work with the running backs and tight ends in his first season on East Hill.

Falbo spent the last two seasons as assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator at Alderson Broaddus, helping start the Division II program under head coach Dennis Creehan. In the program's first season, Falbo's helped the team to a 9-2 record. In 2013, Falbo was named the team's defensive coordinator. His unit recorded 26 takeaways and 21 sacks as part of a 4-7 campaign. The team was invited to compete in the inaugural ECAC Futures Bowl against the Florida Institute of Technology.

He has also had prior stops at RPI (2011), UMass (2004-10), Rhode Island (2002-03), St. Lawrence (2001), Syracuse (2000) and Western Connecticut (1999), as well as stops at California (Pa.), Princeton and Maine Maritime Academy.

At RPI, Falbo served as offensive coordinator in 2011 as well as acting head coach for five months. He mentored the league's offensive player of the year and coached 11 players that earned all-league accolades.

Falbo spent seven seasons at UMass, including spending four seasons as recruiting coordinator. He coached the offensive line, running backs and tight ends while coaching the Minutemen. He coached three NFL signees as well as Walter Payton Award candidate Tony Nelson. He earned guest coaching opportunities with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.

While at Rhode Island, he coached wide receivers and spent his final season as recruiting coordinator. He spent 2001 as the defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator and head strength and conditioning coach at St. Lawrence.

Falbo was a graduate assistant at Syracuse in 2000, working with the offense. That was after a year at Western Connecticut where he helped the team to a 10-2 record, a conference title and the program's second NCAA playoff berth while working with the linebackers.

He began his career with stints as a graduate assistant at California (Pa.) working with the secondary, worked a year as the outside linebackers coach at Princeton was the secondary coach at Maine Maritime Academy.

A 1997 graduate of Central Connecticut State, Falbo was a two-year starter at strong safety. He earned a degree in Physical Education and Exercise Science and spent the spring of 1996 as a student assistant coach at his alma mater.