USD Football 2009

Sam Anno joins the USO staff as a full-time assistant on head coach Ron Caragher's staff. He will coach linebackers along with being the Special Teams Coordinator. This past season he coached at Central Connecticut State where the team went 7-4 overall and tied for third in the Northeast Conference standings with a 4-3 mark.He was responsible for linebackers and special teams for the Blue Devils. Prior to his one year at Central Connecticut, Anno spente three seasons at the University of Southern California, his alma mater. After serving as a defensive and special teams graduate assis– tant at USC in 2005 and 2006, Anno was a video assistant on the 2007 staff. Prior to joining the USC staff, Anno spent 2004 as an assistant coach at Venice High School. He was also an assistant at Saint Monica High for four seasons (1996-99) and the defensive coordinator at Santa Monica High from 2000-01 .

Anno spent seven years in the NFL after graduating from USC. A linebacker and long snapper, he played with the Los Angeles Rams (1987), Minnesota Vikings (1987-88), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1989-91) and San Diego Chargers (1992-93). He received NFL Special Teams Player of the Year honors in 1989.The Santa Monica, CA native received his bachelor's degree in Communications from USC in 1987 before obtaining a master's degree in Athletic Administration from the University.

Keith Carter joins the USD staff where he will coach tight ends. He comes to USD from the University of Redlands where he had been offensive line coach the past Fri"""'-ii-i-. two seasons. In 2008 the Bulldogs went 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the SCIAC (3rd place). Prior to Redlands he was tight ends coach at Wag–

ner College in 2006 while completing his Master of Arts in Secondary Education. In 2005 he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA after competing as a member of the Bruins football team. As a player he played for the Bruins for four seasons seeing action at U-back, fullback and tight end. He hails from Downingtown, PA.

Tanner Engstrand enters his fifth season with the

Toreros and first as the quarterbacks coach.

The past two seasons he has served as the running jiiii;p-ijii,m,;-:.;..iljii~ni-ii backs coach and this past season he helped guide fresh–

man running backs Phil Morelli and Matt Jelmini to 2nd team all conference and honorable mention, respectively, in place of injured starter JT Rogan. The two combined to rush for 1305 yards and 9 touchdowns. In his first season as the running backs coach the Toreros rushing attack aver– aged 185.8 yard per game and was led by junior JT Rogan who finished with 1,021 yards and 10 touchdowns. In 2008 in addition to his running back duties he was also the Di– rector of Football Operations.

In 2005 and 2006 Tanner was an offensive assistant for the Toreros who finished with an 11-1 record both years. As an offense, the Toreros ranked first in the nation in total offense and scoring in 2006. During his time at USD the Toreros have garnered a 40-6 record. Prior to coming to USD Engstrand was a two year letterman at San Diego State University (2003-2004) where he played quarterback. Before enrolling at SDSU he was a First Team All Foothill Conference and Academic All– American quarterback at Grossmont College in El Cajon California during the 2002 season. Engstrand graduated with his bachelor's degree in Economics from SDSU in 2005 and also earned his masters degree in Business Administration from USD in December 2007.