Bronx, N.Y. – Art Asselta, former assistant coach at Yale University, was named assistant football coach at Fordham University it was announced today by head coach Joe Conlin. Asselta will be responsible for the Fordham wide receivers in 2020.
 
"We're excited that Art has decided to join the Fordham staff," said Conlin. "Having worked with him at Yale I'm confident that his coaching experience will greatly benefit our wide receivers as we prepare for the 2020 season."
 
Asselta comes to Fordham after spending six years at the wide receivers coach at Yale University, including five as the recruiting coordinator.  Additionally he served as the pass game coordinator for the Bulldogs in his final two years in New Haven. The Bulldogs won the 2019 Ivy League title with two wide receiver and quarterback Kurt Rawlings earning first team All-Ivy honors. Rawlings was also named the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year and the New England Football Writers Player of the Year.
 
At Yale, Asselta mentored five of the most prolific receivers in the history of the program, including Deon Randall '14, Grant Wallace '15, Christopher Williams-Lopez '17, Reed Klubnik '20, and JP Shohfi '20. He helped Klubnik and Shohfi earn all-league honors in 2018 and 2019 after coaching All-Ivy selections Michael Siragusa and Williams-Lopez in 2017 during an Ivy League Championship campaign.
 
His first (2014) campaign with the Blue produced big numbers. His receivers helped Yale lead the nation in total offense while Wallace led the FCS in yards per game.
 
Prior to Yale, Asselta served as an assistant coach at McNeese State in 2013, helping the Cowboy offense rank seventh in FCS scoring (40.0) and 17th in total offense (451.0). McNeese State ranked eleventh in the NCAA FCS, going 10-3 and making the 2013 NCAA Playoffs. His pupil, Cody Stroud, who threw 28 TD passes, was Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
 
At the University of New Hampshire in 2012, Asselta mentored the receivers and the pass game as the No. 13 Wildcats reached the NCAA Quarterfinals.
 
Asselta served as an assistant at Southeastern Louisiana in 2010 and 2011. A pair of Lions signal-callers, Tyler Beatty and Brian Young, grabbed spots in the school record books under Asselta. Beatty, as a first-year starter in 2010, posted the eighth-best total in passing yards (1,738 yards) while finishing his career sixth in passing yards (2,328) and completions (188). Young succeeded Beatty in 2011 and posted the third-highest single-season total in passing yards (2,855 yards) while finishing third in career passing yards (3,867) and completions (332).
    
Asselta also spent six seasons as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks/receivers coach at Sacred Heart University. Under his tutelage, Dale Fink became the most prolific passer in school history and he coached SHU's three-time All-Northeast Conference receiver Steve Tedesco. Tedesco led the league in receiving with 67 receptions for 865 yards as a senior and holds school records for career receptions (229), career receiving yards (2,848), career touchdowns scored (37), career receiving touchdowns (37), receptions in a season (77), TD catches in a game (4) and catches in a game (12).

Asselta coached the running backs in his first year at SHU and helped Ed Priccolo become the school's all-time rushing and TD leader.
    
Before joining SHU, Asselta worked as a graduate assistant and running backs coach at Louisiana-Monroe, where he coached the first 1,000-yard rusher for the Warhawks since their move to the NCAA FBS.
    
Asselta earned a 1999 degree in marketing from Hofstra where he was twice named conference player of the week as a quarterback for the Pride. He holds a graduate degree from Stony Brook University and worked as a graduate assistant for the Seawolves for one season.
    
He and his wife, the former Jessica Andrews, have a daughter, Alexis, and a son, Ayden.