TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez announced Friday the promotion of Matt Caponi to safeties coach and the addition of Andrew Warsaw as an operations assistant.
Caponi was a defensive graduate assistant at UA during the 2012 season after being hired by Rodriguez in December 2011. Prior to his arrival in Tucson, he was a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh in 2011 and the defensive coordinator at Washington and Jefferson College for three seasons (2008-10). He also worked with linebackers at Washington and Jefferson in 2010 and was in charge of the secondary from 2006-09. He got his start in coaching in 2004 as a student assistant at his alma mater, Mount Union.
Caponi was a team captain and starting safety at Mount Union, earning second-team all-conference honors as a senior in 2003. Mount Union went 55-1 during his four-year career, winning three Division III national titles. He earned a degree in physical education in 2005.
Warsaw joins the Arizona staff as an operations assistant following stints at Fordham, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Penn and Villanova. He spent the 2012 season at Fordham as the director of operations. In 2011, he served as the director of operations and recruiting coordinator at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Warsaw previously served as the assistant director of football operations at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, helping the Quakers to the 2010 Ivy League title, and worked as an intern at Villanova in 2009, when the Wildcats won the FCS national championship.
A 2009 graduate of the West Virginia, Warsaw served as a student manager for four years as an undergraduate, with the first two of those coming while Rodriguez was head coach.
